A volume of Henry Mayhew's Victorian social reportage, part of London Labour and the London Poor. It surveys the street-folk of London—sellers, buyers, finders, performers, artisans and labourers—through interviews, statistics and vivid observation. It is worth listening for its direct voices and detailed picture of nineteenth-century urban poverty and everyday street work.
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LONDON LABOUR AND THE LONDON POOR A Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings OF THOSE THAT WILL WORK THOSE THAT CANNOT WORK, AND THOSE THAT WILL NOT WORK BY HENRY MAYHEW THE LONDON STREET-FOLK COMPRISING STREET SELLERS · STREET BUYERS · STREET FINDERS STREET PERFORMERS · STREET ARTIZANS · STREET LABOURERS WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS VOLUME TWO
First edition 1851 (Volume One only and parts of Volumes Two and Three) Enlarged edition (Four volumes) 1861-62 New impression 1865
CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. THE STREET-FOLK. PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 5 STREET-SELLERS OF SECOND-HAND ARTICLES STREET-SELLERS OF LIVE ANIMALS 47 STREET-SELLERS OF MINERAL PRODUCTIONS AND NATURAL 81 CURIOSITIES THE STREET-BUYERS 103 THE STREET-JEWS 115 STREET-FINDERS OR COLLECTORS 136 THE STREETS OF LONDON 181 CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS 338 CROSSING SWEEPERS 465
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. РАGE A VIEW IN PETTICOAT-LANE 36 39 A VIEW IN ROSEMARY-LANE 54 THE STREET DOG-SELLER THE CRIPPLED STREET BIRD-SELLER 66 STREET-SELLER OF BIRDS'-NESTS 72 THE JEW OLD-CLOTHES MAN 118 138 THE BONE-GRUBBER THF MUD-LARK 155 172 THE LONDON DUSTMAN 208 VIEW OF A DUST-YARD THE LONDON SCAVENGER 226 STREET ORDERLIES 253 THE ABLE-BODIED PAUPER STREET-SWEEPER 262 THE RUBBISH-CARTER 289 THE LONDON SWEEP 346 354 ONE OF THE FEW REMAINING CLIMBING-SWEEPS THF: MILKMAID'S GARLAND 370 378 THE SWEEP'S HOME THE SEWER-HUNTER 388 MODE OF CLEANSING CESSPOOLS 406 FLUSHING THE SEWERS 424 THE RAT-CATCHERS OF THE SEWERS 431 LONDON NIGHTMEN 433 THE BEARDED CROSSING-SWEEPER AT THE EXCHANGE 471 THE CROSSING-SWEEPER THAT HAS BEEN A MAID-SERVANT 479
THE IRISH CROSSING-SWEEPER 481 THE ONE-LEGGED CROSSING-SWEEPER AT CHANCERY-LANE 488 THE BOY CROSSING-SWEEPERS 494
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