London Labour and the London Poor Volume IV
Gelesen von Gillian Hendrie
Henry Mayhew
(5 Sterne; 3 Bewertungen)
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 (55 hr 1 min)
Chapters
OF THE NON-WORKERS Part 2: Table of Offenders and Suspicious Characters, and th…
21:57
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PROSTITUTES Part 15: among the Indians of South America; in the Cities of South…
26:47
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PROSTITUTES Part 19: among the semi-civilized nations - Introduction; of Celebes
25:00
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PROSTITUTES Part 30: among the States of Northern Africa; Arabia, Syria, and As…
39:59
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PROSTITUTES Part 33: of the mixed Northern nations - introductory; in Russia
25:55
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PROSTITUTES Part 37: of prostitution in civilized states - Introduction
30:48
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PROSTITUTES Part 40: Amsterdam; Belgium; Hamburg; Prussia-Germany; Berlin
32:21
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PROSTITUTES Part 55: Narrative of a Gay Woman at the West End of the Metropolis.
15:51
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THIEVES & SWINDLERS Part 8: Omnibus Pickpockets; Railway Pickpockets; Shoplifte…
11:45
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THIEVES & SWINDLERS Part 12: A Ramble Among the Thieves’ Dens in the Borough
22:02
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BEGGARS Part 2: Street Beggars in 1816; Mendicant Pensioners; Mendicity Society
32:43
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BEGGARS Part 5: Ashamed Beggars; The Swell Beggar; Clean Family Beggars
16:48
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APPENDIX Part 2: Map and Table showing the Density of the Population (cont.); …
28:01
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Bewertungen
(5 Sterne)
Mayhew deviates from his title subject to venture into wider anthropology with his chapters on "Prostitution" which expands to an examination of the abusive treatment of women across the globe Fascinating exposition which drops back into London thieves & swindlers All so worthy of study
Superb
Echolallies
(5 Sterne)
Another fantastic reading from this reader. I have been looking forward to Mayhew's final volume, having thoroughly enjoyed the previous ones. Absolutely fascinating and extremely well done
practicale guide to prostitution
crack cocaine
(5 Sterne)
even though it is supposed to be about London's prostitution, the book profiles different cultures all over the entire world