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The ragged trousered philanthropists / Robert Tressell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Miles.

Date

2005

The Morning Chronicle survey of labour and the poor : the metropolitan districts / Henry Mayhew.

Date

1980-1982

Cruel habitations : a history of working-class housing 1780-1918 / [Enid Gauldie].

Date

[1974]

Selections from the papers of the London Corresponding Society, 1792-1799 / edited, with an introduction and notes by Mary Thale.

Date

1983

Youth in British industry : a survey of labour conditions to-day / by John Gollan.

Date

1937

Labour and life of the people / edited by Charles Booth ; contributors Charles Booth, Beatrice Potter [and others].

Date

1889-1891

Men of opposing social classes in a game of boules; illustrating the faculty of weight and resistance in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Date

[1847]

Reference

27623i

The housing problem : its history, growth, legislation and procedure / by John J. Clarke ... with an introduction by Brig.-General G. Kyffin-Taylor.

Date

1920

Arbeitskunde : Grundlagen, Bedingungen und Ziele der wirtschaftlichen Arbeit / ... herausgegeben von Johannes Riedel.

Date

1925

Homes of the London poor / by Octavia Hill.

Date

1883

The food of the people : being the history of industrial feeding / [N. Curtis-Bennett] ; with a preface by Lord Woolton.

Date

[1949]

Fertility and deprivation : a study of differential fertility amongst working-class families in Aberdeen / Janet Askham.

Date

1975

Poor lass zine. Issue 2, Neighbourhood and community / [Poor Lass Zine].

Date

[2011?]

Life and labour of the people in London. Final volume, Notes on social influences and conclusion / by Charles Booth ; assisted by Jesse Argyle, Ernest Aves, Geo. E. Arkell, Arthur L. Baxter, George H. Duckworth.

Date

1902

Three years among the working-classes in the United States during the war / by the author of "The autobiography of a beggar-boy".

Date

1865

Law on redundancy payments : with special reference to the National Health Service / by W. A. J. Farndale and A. J. Cooper.

Date

1971

Industry and humanity : a study in the principles under-lying industrial reconstruction / by W. L. Mackenzie King.

Date

1918

Queen Caroline, wife of King George IV, is greeted by people from Marylebone. Etching by Th. Hook, 1820.

Date

[1820]

Reference

589425i

The London journal of Flora Tristan, 1842 : or, the aristocracy and the working class of England / a translation of Promenades dans Londres by Jean Hawkes.

Date

1982

L'assommoir = The dram shop / Émile Zola ; translated and edited by Robin Buss.

Date

2000

Second interim report on an investigation of industrial fatigue by physiological methods / by A.F. Stanley Kent.

Date

1916

The young wage-earner : a study of Glasgow boys / by T. Ferguson and J. Cunnison.

Date

1951

The economics of wages and labour / by Nora Milnes.

Date

1926

Under the influence : working-class drinking, temperance, and cultural revolution in Russia, 1895-1932 / Kate Transchel.

Date

[2006], ©2006

A treatise on indigence; exhibiting a general view of the national resources for productive labour; with propositions for ameliorating the condition of the poor, and improving the moral habits and increasing the comforts of the labouring people ... / by P. Colquhoun.

Date

1806