The people of the abyss / by Jack London ; author of the "The Call of the Wild," ...

Written when London arrived in England in 1902, this book gives a firsthand account of the poor and unemployed among whom he lived in the slums of the East End of London. It is a sensitive portrayal of daily life on the margins of society that culminates in a searing indictment of modern industrialism's mistreatment of workers and the poverty-stricken and its propensity for transferring wealth to the rich.