London Labour and the London Poor Volume IV
Henry Mayhew
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Subtitled A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.
This volume: Those that will not work, comprising prostitutes, swindlers, thieves, beggars.
Henry Mayhew was a social researcher and journalist who compiled a four volume work in minute detail on the lives of the poor in London, of which this is the fourth volume, published in 1862, and co-written with Bracebridge Hemyng, John Binny and Andrew Halliday.
Notes:
1. Arithmetical errors have been left unchanged.
2. The Appendix consists of a number of maps and tables of statistics, comparing the counties of England and Wales. The 'casual listener' may wish to skip these.
Summary by Peter Yearsley and Gillian Hendrie (55 hr 1 min)
Chapters
Reviews
A LibriVox Listener
Mayhew deviates from his title subject to venture into wider anthropology with his chapters on "Prostitution" which expands to an examination of the abusive treatment of women across the globe Fascinating exposition which drops back into London thieves & swindlers All so worthy of study
Superb
Echolallies
Another fantastic reading from this reader. I have been looking forward to Mayhew's final volume, having thoroughly enjoyed the previous ones. Absolutely fascinating and extremely well done
practicale guide to prostitution
crack cocaine
even though it is supposed to be about London's prostitution, the book profiles different cultures all over the entire world