Title: London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. I)
First published: 1651
Description: *London Labour and the London Poor* was originally a series of articles, later published in four volumes, written for the *Morning Chronicle* in 1849 and 1850 by journalist Henry Mayhew. Mayhew aimed simply to report the realities of the poor from a compassionate and practical outlook. He was succesful, and the underprivileged of London become extraordinarily and often shockingly alive.
Subjects: Criminals, Crime, Poor, Description and travel, Unemployed, child labor, Benevolent and moral institutions and societies, Labor and laboring classes, History, Working class, Economics, poverty, Peddling, Labor, women, Peddlers and peddling, Crime and criminals, Charities, Prostitution, London, Public welfare, Social conditions, Social life and customs, Poor, england, london, Working class, great britain, London (england), social conditions, Work, Employment, Public Health, Sex Work, Arbeidersklasse, Armoede, Criminaliteit
Places: England, England London, Great Britain, London, London (England)