The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor by Henry ... - 9781138203952

Henry Mayhew

The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the PoorThe Metropolitan Districts Volume 3\nAuthor(s): Henry Mayhew, Peter Razzell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138203952, 978-1138203952\nSynopsis\nIn the years 1849 and 1850, Henry Mayhew was the metropolitan correspondent of the Morning Chronicle in its national survey of labour and the poor. Only about a third of his Morning Chronicle material was included in his later and better known, publication, London Labour and the London Poor. \n\nFirst published in 1981, this series of six volumes constitutes Henry Mayhews complete Morning Chronicle survey, in the sequence in which it was originally written in 1849 and 1850. It addresses a wealth of topics from cholera in the Jacobs Island area to the food markets of London. The publication of this complete survey represented the first time in which the whole of Mayhews pioneering work was available in one place. The se.