London Labour and the London Poor Volume I

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Modern (19th C), Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

Authors: Henry Mayhew In Year : 1851

Book Language: English

Audiobook: London Labour and the London Poor Volume I

Preface; The Street-Folk - part 1
The Street-Folk - part 2
The Street-Folk - part 3
The Street-Folk - part 4
The Street-Folk - part 5
The Street-Folk - part 6
The Street-Folk - part 7
The Street-Folk - part 8
The Street-Folk - part 9
The Street-Folk - part 10
The Street-Folk - part 11
The Street-Folk - part 12
The Street-Folk - part 13
The Street-Folk - part 14
The Street-Folk - part 15
The Street-Folk - part 16
The Street-Folk - part 17
The Street-Folk - part 18
The Street-Folk - part 19
The Street-Folk - part 20
The Street-Folk - part 21
The Street-Folk - part 22
The Street-Folk - part 23
The Street-Folk - part 24
The Street-Folk - part 25
The Street-Folk - part 26
The Street-Folk - part 27
The Street-Folk - part 28
The Street-Folk - part 29
The Street-Folk - part 30
The Street-Folk - part 31
The Street-Folk - part 32
The Street-Folk - part 33
The Street-Folk - part 34
The Street-Folk - part 35
The Street-Folk - part 36
The Street-Folk - part 37
The Street-Folk - part 38
The Street-Folk - part 39
The Street-Folk - part 40
The Street-Folk - part 41
The Street-Folk - part 42
The Street-Folk - part 43
The Street-Folk - part 44
The Street-Folk - part 45
The Street-Folk - part 46
The Street-Folk - part 47
The Street-Folk - part 48
The Street-Folk - part 49
The Street-Folk - part 50
The Street-Folk - part 51
The Street-Folk - part 52
The Street-Folk - part 53
The Street-Folk - part 54
The Street-Folk - part 55
The Street-Folk - part 56
The Street-Folk - part 57
The Street-Folk - part 58
The Street-Folk - part 59
The Street-Folk - part 60
The Street-Folk - part 61
The Street-Folk - part 62
The Street-Folk - part 63
The Street-Folk - part 64
The Street-Folk - part 65
The Street-Folk - part 66
The Street-Folk - part 67
The Street-Folk - part 68
The Street-Folk - part 69
The Street-Folk - part 70
The Street-Folk - part 71
The Street-Folk - part 72
The Street-Folk - part 73
The Street-Folk - part 74
The Street-Folk - part 75
The Street-Folk - part 76
The Street-Folk - part 77
The Street-Folk - part 78
The Street-Folk - part 79
The Street-Folk - part 80
The Street-Folk - part 81
The Street-Folk - part 82
The Street-Folk - part 83
The Street-Folk - part 84
The Street-Folk - part 88
The Street-Folk - part 85
The Street-Folk - part 86
The Street-Folk - part 87
The Street-Folk - part 89

Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work." "The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves .. their labour, earnings, trials and sufferings, in their own unvarnished language, and to pourtray the condition of their homes and their families by personal observation of the places ..." "My earnest hope is that the book may serve to give the rich a more intimate knowledge of the sufferings, and the frequent heroism under those sufferings, of the poor ..." Henry Mayhew was a social researcher and journalist; he compiled a four volume work in minute detail on the lives of the poor in London, of which this is the first volume, published in 1851. (Peter Yearsley)

Notes: 1 The reader has attempted different voices to separate the interviewees from the narrator, but makes no claim to the accents being appropriate to the speakers.
2 Very occasionally, the language used may be uncomfortable to a modern listener.
3 Sections 34, 52, and 89 consist of analyses of the data collected in the preceding sections. Mayhew himself implies that it might not be too interesting for some of his readers. Listeners to this recording could miss out these sections without fear that they are missing much.
4 Where expletives and proper names have been abbreviated in the text as, for example, "D---d", or "Mrs M---", these have been rendered as "D blank D" and "Mrs M blank" as appropriate.
5 There are some pages of errata at the end of the book, which mainly involve corrections to the many numbers given in the text. The corrections have been included in the recording. However, many arithmetical errors still exist; these have been left unchanged.

Definitions and slang:
1 In Mayhew's time, a chandler was a dealer in household items such as oil, soap, paint, and groceries.
2 "ing-uns" are frequently mentioned as being sold by the costermongers. This is clarified in the text as being their name for onions.
3 The phrase "Han-sellers" in section 55 is clarified as "hand-sellers" in a later section.
4 A "pottle" is a volume of half a gallon (four pints).
5 A quartern loaf weighs four pounds.
6 "Sawney" is bacon.
7 "Tin" is a nickname for money in general, while a "brown" is the nickname for a copper/bronze coin (a farthing, half-penny, penny, etc.). 8 A "wink" seller sells periwinkles.
9 "Woman- (or girl-) of the streets" seems often to be a euphemism for prostitutes.