Mayhew, Henry 1812-1887 creator text utu 2017 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 1" by Henry Mayhew is a work of Victorian journalism published in 1851. Through detailed interviews and forensic observation, Mayhew documents the lives of London's working poor—from rat catchers and street sellers to mudlarks scouring the Thames and pure-finders collecting dog dung. His vivid descriptions capture the chaos of street markets and the desperate ingenuity of thousands surviving in the world's richest city, combining personal testimonies with statistical analysis to reveal a forgotten underworld of poverty and resilience. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Labour_and_the_London_Poor Release date is 2017-11-19 Produced by Henry Flower, Jonathan Ingram, Suzanne Lybarger, the booksmiths at eBookForge and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Original publication data not identified Poor -- England -- London London (England) -- Social conditions Criminals -- England -- London Prostitution -- England -- London Charities -- England -- London Working class -- England -- London Unemployed -- England -- London HV Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55998 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55998 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134306.0 55998