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Henry Mayhew
Voices of the Poor [EPUB ebook]
Selections from the "Morning Chronicle" "Labour and the Poor"

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First Published in 1971. This is a collection of the influential letters (or articles) on the ”Labour and the Poor” written by Henry Mayhew for the Morning Chronicle as part of his contributions to the papers” survey of conditions among the lower classes. Charles Kingsley and the Christian Socialists pressed for sanitation reform because of Mayhew”s revelations about Jacob”s Island, a slum in south London.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 304 ● ISBN 9781136271120 ● Editor Anne Humphreys ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5300681 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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