Author : Iain Sinclair
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 2019
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780500022290
This insightful, evocative, and sumptuous volume brings Charles Booth's landmark survey of late nineteenth-century London to a new audience.
Author : Charles Booth
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2018-10-20
Category :
ISBN : 9780343834166
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Beatrice Webb
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Cooperation
ISBN :
Author : Henry Mayhew
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 24,94 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1605207330
Assembled from a series of newspaper articles first published in the newspaper *Morning Chronicle* throughout the 1840s, this exhaustively researched, richly detailed survey of the teeming street denizens of London is a work both of groundbreaking sociology and salacious voyeurism. In an 1850 review of the survey, just prior to its initial book publication, William Makepeace Thackeray called it "tale of terror and wonder" offering "a picture of human life so wonderful, so awful, so piteous and pathetic, so exciting and terrible, that readers of romances own they never read anything like to it." Delving into the world of the London "street-folk"-the buyers and sellers of goods, performers, artisans, laborers and others-this extraordinary work inspired the socially conscious fiction of Charles Dickens in the 19th century as well as the urban fantasy of Neil Gaiman in the late 20th. Volume I explores the lives of: the "wandering tribes" costermongers sellers of fish, fruits and vegetables sellers of books and stationery sellers of manufactured goods women and children on the streets and more. English journalist HENRY MAYHEW (1812-1887) was a founder and editor of the satirical magazine *Punch.*
Author : Rosemary O'Day
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1441134433
Charles Booth's pioneering survey, Life and Labour of the People in London, published in 17 volumes between 1889 and 1903, was a landmark in empirical social investigation. His panorama of London life has dominated all subsequent accounts: its scope, precision and detail make it an unrivalled source for the period. Mr. Charles Booth's Inquiry is the first systematic account of the making of the survey, based upon an intensive examination of the huge Booth archive. This contains far more material than was eventually published, in particular on women, work, religion, education, housing and social relations, as well as on poverty. While the book acknowledges the leading role of Booth himself, it highlights the significance of the contributions of his associates, including Beatrice Potter (Webb), Octavia Hill, Llewellyn Smith and G.H. Duckworth. Life and Labour of the People in London is a founding text of both social history and modern sociology. It has however commonly been misunderstood and frequently misused. Mr. Charles Booth's Inquiry sets the survey in perspective and demonstrates the richness of the Booth archive and its potential for modern scholarship in both history and the social sciences.
Author : Edward Palmer Thompson
Publisher : IICA
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political consciousness of great vitality.
Author : Nick Buck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1136477780
For decades the cities of the developed world were seen as problem-beset relics from times of low mobility and slow communications. But now, their potential to sustain creativity, culture and innovation is perceived as crucial to success in a much more competitive global ecomony. The vital requirement to secure and sustain this success is argued to be the achievement of social cohesion. Working Capital provides a rigorous but accessible analysis of these key issues taking London as its test case. The book provides the first substantial analysis of key economic, social and structural issues that the new London administration needs to deal with. In a wider context, its critical assessment of the bases of the new urbanism and of the global city thesis will raise questions both about the adequacy of urban thinking and about the capacity of new institutions alone to resolve the fundamental problems faced by cities.
Author : Henry Mayhew
Publisher :
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 1862
Category : Correctional institutions
ISBN :
Author : Belinda Norman-Butler
Publisher : London : Allen and Unwin
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Booth Charles
ISBN :
Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : Polity
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 2007-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745642225
Labour stands at a decisive point in its history. A change of leadership can help reinvigorate the party, but winning a fourth term of government will be impossible unless Labour's ideological position and policy outlook are thoroughly refurbished. What form should these innovations take?
