Erratum inserted at p. 108. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Labour and the poor : the manufacturing districts (1849) / Angus Reach -- Labour and the poor : the metropolitan districts (1849) / Henry Mayhew -- A sleep to startle us (1852) / Charles Dickens -- Liverpool life (1856) / Hugh Shimmin -- London horrors (1861) / John Hollingshead -- On the treatment of female convicts (1863) / Mary Carpenter -- A night in a workhouse (1866) / James Greenwood -- Baby farming (1870) / A.B. -- Inside Newgate (1872) / Henry Labouchere -- In a gipsy camp (1879) / J. Weing Ritchie -- How the poor live (1883) / George R. Sims -- The maiden tribute of modern Babylon (1885) / W.T. Stead -- White slavery in London (1888) / Aniie Besant -- Pages from a work-girl's diary (1888) / Beatrice Potter -- In cap and apron (1893) / Elizabeth Banks -- Massacre of the innocents (1895) / Herbert Cadett -- The white slaves of England (1897) / Robert H. Sherard -- The tramp ward (1904) / Mark Higgs -- The edge of the street (1904) / Olive Christian Malvery.
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