London Labour and the London Poor Volume IV
Author: first_name: Henry
last_name: Mayhew
Language: English
Year: 1862

Subtitled  A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.<br><br>

This volume: Those that will not work, comprising prostitutes, swindlers, thieves, beggars.<br><br>

Henry Mayhew was a social researcher and journalist who compiled a four volume work in minute detail on the lives of the poor in London, of which this is the fourth volume, published in 1862, and co-written with Bracebridge Hemyng, John Binny and Andre