London Labour and the London Poor Volume IV
Author(s): Henry Mayhew
Genre(s): *non-fiction
Narrators: Gillian Hendrie
Number of Chapters: 131
Length: 55 hours and 01 minute
Language: English
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