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With an Introduction by Rosemary O'Day. London Labour and the

London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social

observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in

the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of

the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour,

earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the

Great Exhibition. In scope, depth and detail it remains unrivalled.

Mayhew takes us into the abyss, into a world without fixed

employment where skills are declining and insecurity mounting, a

world of criminality, pauperism and vice, of unorthodox personal

relations and fluid families, a world from which regularity is

absent and prosperity has departed. Making sense of this

environment required curiosity, imagination and a novelist s eye

for detail, and Henry Mayhew poss????essed all three. No previous

writer had succeeded in presenting the poor through their own

stories and in their own words, and in this undertaking Mayhew

rivals his contemporary Dickens. To pass from one to the other,

writes one authority, is to cross sides of the same street. With an

Introduction by Rosemary O'Day. London Labour and the London Poor

is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is

the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest

Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits,

tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and

opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition.

In scope, depth and detail it remains unrivalled. Mayhew takes us

into the abyss, into a world without fixed employment where skills

are declining and insecurity mounting, a world of criminality,

pauperism and vice, of unorthodox personal relations and fluid

families, a world from which regularity is absent and prosperity

has departed. Making sense of this environment required curiosity,

imagination and a novelist s eye for detail, and Henry Mayhew

poss????essed all three. No previous writer had succeeded in

presenting the poor through their own stories and in their own

words, and in this undertaking Mayhew rivals his contemporary

Dickens. To pass from one to the other, writes one authority, is to

cross sides of the same street.

NTRODUCTION

Of wandering tribes in general

Wandering tribes in this country

Of the number of costermongers and other street-folk

Of the varieties of street-folk in general, and costermongers in

particular

Habits and amusements of costermongers

Gambling of costermongers

The 'Vic. Gallery'

The politics of costermongers - policemen

Marriage and concubinage of costermongers

Religion of costermongers

Of the uneducated state of costermongers

Language of costermongers

Of the nicknames of costermongers

Of the education of costermongers' children

The literature of costermongers

Of the costermongers' capital

Of the 'slang' weights and measures

Of the boys of the costermongers, and their bunts

Education of the 'coster-lads'

The life of a coster-lad

Of the 'penny gaff'

Of the coster-girls

The life of a coster-girl

Of the homes of the costermongers

Of the dress of the costermongers

Of the diet and drink of costermongers

Of the earnings of costermongers

Of the capital and income of the costermongers

Of the providence and improvidence of costermongers

Of the costermongers in bad weather and during the cholera

Of the costermongers' raffles

Of the tricks cf

costermongers                    

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Henry Mayhew (1812?–1887) was a journalist,

social investigator, novelist, and author?— his work distinguished

by vivid reportage, unsentimental sympathy, humor, and an eye for

detail.

Victor Neuburg is a former senior lecturer at the School

of Librarianship, University of North London. His publications

include Popular Literature and A Guide to the Western

Front.

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