The politics of the poor
Subtitle: the East End of London, 1885-1914
By: Marc Brodie.
Series: Oxford historical monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Poor -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.; Poor -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century.; East End (London, England) -- Politics and government.; East End (London, England) -- Social conditions.
Description: "This book is about the political views of the 'classic' poor of London's East End in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. The residents of this area have been historically characterized as abjectly poor, casually employed, slum dwellers with a poverty-induced apathy toward political solutions interspersed with occasional violent displays of support for populist calls for protectionism, imperialism, or anti-alien agitation.

These factors, in combination, have been thought to have allowed the Conservative Party to politically dominate the East End in this period."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-235) and index.