Cruel habitations
Subtitle: a history of working-class housing 1780-1918.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 1974
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Housing -- Great Britain -- History; Working class -- Dwellings -- Great Britain -- History
Description: "The book deals with the pre-industrial background in which housing problems are rooted, with the decay of towns and the unsuccessful attempts to better their condition by public health reforms, by charitable agencies and by building societies; and with legislative action in Parliament towards housing reform."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [311]-316.