Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society - Couverture souple

Jones, Gareth Stedman

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0394725476 ISBN 13 : 9780394725475

Editeur : Pantheon Books, 1984

Synopsis

Examines the problem of casual labor in relation to the crisis of social and industrial development in London during the late nineteenth century

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

 At the time the largest city in the world, Victorian London intrigued and appalled politicians, clergymen, novelists and social investigators. Dickens, Mayhew, Booth, Gissing and George Bernard Shaw, to name but a few, developed a morbid fascination with its sullied streets and the sensational gulf between London classes. Outcast London  explores the London economy, in particular its vast numbers of casual and irregular day labourers and the artisans and seamstresses engaged in seasonal and workshop trades.

This vast assemblage was volatile, subject to the ups and downs of the world economy, to the vagaries of the weather, and to the rise and fall of various trades. Its crises could cause panic in wealthy London. New forms of charity came into being as well as, eventually, an embryonic form of the twentieth century welfare state.

At first sight, the London described in this book is wholly remote from the city encountered today. But developments in recent decades reveal that the types of irregular employment, poverty and inequality experienced by modern Londoners are not so distant from those familiar to their Victorian and Edwardian ancestors.

Biographie de l'auteur

Gareth Stedman Jones is a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge University and in 2010 become Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of An End to Poverty? and Languages of Class: Studies in Working-Class History 1832–1982.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pantheon Books
• Date d'édition: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0394725476
• ISBN 13: 9780394725475
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible