Professor Michael Ball & David T Sunderland 
An Economic History of London 1800-1914 [EPUB ebook] 

In 1800 London was already the largest city in the world, and over the course of the next century its population grew rapidly, reaching over seven million by 1914. Historians have often depicted London after the Industrial Revolution as an industrial backwater that declined into the mass exploitation of labour through  »sweating », dominated by City