{"product_id":"london-labour-and-the-london-henry-mayhew-9781840226195","title":"London Labour and the London Poor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith an Introduction by Rosemary O'Day.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLondon Labour and the London Poor\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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 possessed all three.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNo 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'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henry Mayhew\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1840226196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781840226195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wordsworth Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 688\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 4.90w x 1.50d","brand":"Henry Mayhew","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46070316368127,"sku":"9781840226195","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_780af32c-4ab9-441a-81dc-c0122d738356.jpg?v=1724242899","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/london-labour-and-the-london-henry-mayhew-9781840226195","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}