Title: The politics of the poor
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.
Subjects: History, Politics and government, Poor, Social conditions, London (england), history
Places: East End (London, England), England, London
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century