London Labour and the London Poor Volume IV

Henry Mayhew

Read by Gillian Hendrie

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Subtitled A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.

This volume: Those that will not work, comprising prostitutes, swindlers, thieves, beggars.

Henry Mayhew was a social researcher and journalist who compiled a four volume work in minute detail on the lives of the poor in London, of which this is the fourth volume, published in 1862, and co-written with Bracebridge Hemyng, John Binny and Andrew Halliday.

Notes:
1. Arithmetical errors have been left unchanged.
2. The Appendix consists of a number of maps and tables of statistics, comparing the counties of England and Wales. The 'casual listener' may wish to skip these.
Summary by Peter Yearsley and Gillian Hendrie (55 hr 1 min)