ISBN:
9781000562019
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (540 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.562094109034
Keywords:
City and town life
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Working class-Great Britain-History-20th century
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This four volume primary resource collection is the most comprehensive of its kind and includes a multitude of sources that allows the user to chart the squalor, the noise, the conflict, the aspiration and the diversity of the working-class experience up to the outbreak of the First World War.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- General Introduction -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part I: Forming the Urban Working Class -- [Anon.], 'Domestic Manufactures - The Factory System - Migration of Agricultural Labourers to the Manufacturing Districts', Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1837) -- [A. Alison], 'Social and Moral Condition of the Manufacturing Districts in Scotland', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841), excerpt -- [A. Alison], 'Causes of the Increase of Crime', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1844) -- J. O. Power, 'The Irish in England', Fortnightly Review (1880), excerpts -- E. G. Ravenstein, 'The Laws of Migration' , Journal of the Statistical Society of London (1885), excerpts -- G. B. Longstaff, 'Some Lessons of the Census' , New Review (1891) -- E. Cannan, 'The Decline of Urban Migration', National Review (1894) -- J. Salter, The East in the West -- or Work amongst the Asiatics and Afr icans in London (1895), excerpts -- [Anon.], 'The London Irish', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1901) -- I. A. Hourwich, 'The Jewish Labourer in London', Journal of Political Economy (1904) -- Part II: Housing and Health -- J. Heywood, 'State of Poor Families in Miles Platting, Manchester', Journal of the Statistical Society of London (1838) -- C. B. Fripp, 'Report of an Inquiry into the Condition of the Working Classes of the City of Bristol', Journal of the Statistical Society of London (1839) -- W. P. Alison, Observations on the Management of the Poor in Scotland, and its Effects on the Health of the Great Towns (1840), excerpts -- 'Report of a Committee of the Statistical Society of London, on the State of the Working Classes in the Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John Westminster' , Journal of the Statistical Society of London (1840).
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