Outcast London
A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society
Nonfiction, History, Modern, 19th Century, British
| Author: | Gareth Stedman Jones | ISBN: | 9781781680551 |
| Publisher: | Verso Books | Publication: | August 19, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Verso | Language: | English |
| Author: | Gareth Stedman Jones |
| ISBN: | 9781781680551 |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Publication: | August 19, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Verso |
| Language: | English |
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Victorian middle and upper classes felt increasingly threatened by the masses of “outcast London.” Gareth Stedman Jones, working from a mass of statistical and documentary evidence, argues that after 1850 London passed through a crisis of social and economic development. Outcast London is a fascinating and important study of the problem at the center of the crisis: the casual poor and their fraught relations with the labor market, with housing and with middle-class London.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Victorian middle and upper classes felt increasingly threatened by the masses of “outcast London.” Gareth Stedman Jones, working from a mass of statistical and documentary evidence, argues that after 1850 London passed through a crisis of social and economic development. Outcast London is a fascinating and important study of the problem at the center of the crisis: the casual poor and their fraught relations with the labor market, with housing and with middle-class London.
