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The Urban Working Class in Britain, 18301914

Editor: Andrew August, Penn State University
4 Volume Set: c.1600pp: April 2013 978 1 84893 203 6: 234x156mm: 350/$625

In 1830, with the Industrial Revolution in full-swing, working-class life in Britains cities was in a state of flux. In all the major urban areas across Britain working-class men, women and children experienced both radical and conservative influences affecting every aspect of their lives. This four volume primary resource collection is the most comprehensive of its kind and includes a multitude of sources that allows the user to chart the squalor, the noise, the conflict, the aspiration and the diversity of the working-class experience up to the outbreak of the First World War. The thematically arranged volumes are dedicated to key aspects of working class life such as family and neighbourhood, the workplace, leisure and politics. In all cases the selections made are sensitive to showing the experience of the whole of the working class rather than just that of the working-class male. The voices chosen include both critical observers from outside as well as the working class themselves. All of the documents selected are rare in print form and come from a wide variety of sources including periodicals, articles in magazines, pamphlets and excerpts from books. The collection will be of value to scholars of social and political history, economics, Victorian studies and urban history.
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Most comprehensive collection covering every aspect of urban working-class life Contains over 150 texts and covers cities including London, Liverpool, Oxford and Glasgow Provides full context for all sources Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes and endnotes Consolidated index in final volume

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Contents
Volume 1: Home and Community
Part I: Forming the Urban Working Class Domestic Manufactures The Factory System Migration of Agricultural Labourers to the Manufacturing Districts, Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1837); Social and Moral Condition of the Manufacturing Districts in Scotland, Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1841); Causes of the Increase of Crime, Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1844); J O Power, The Irish in England, Fortnightly Review (1880); E G Ravenstein, The Laws of Migration, Journal of the Statistical Society of London (1885); G B Longstaff, Some Lessons of the Census, The New Review (1891); E Cannan, The Decline of Urban Migration, National Review (1894); J Salter, The East in the West; or Work Amongst the Asiatics and Africans in London (1895)*; The London Irish, Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1901); I A Hourwich, The Jewish Labourer in London, The Journal of Political Economy (1904). Part II: Housing and Health J Heywood, State of Poor Families in Miles Platting, Manchester, Journal of the Statistical Society of London (1838); C B Fripp, Report of an Inquiry into the Condition of the Working Classes of the City of Bristol, Journal of the Statistical Society of London (1839); W P Alison, Observations on the Management of the Poor in Scotland, and Its Effects on the Health of the Great Towns (1840)*; Report of a Committee of the Statistical Society of London, on the State of the Working Classes in the Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John Westminster, Journal of the Statistical Society of London (1840); W P Alison, Observations on the Epidemic Fever of MDCCXLIII in Scotland and its connection with the destitute condition of the poor (1844)*; W H Duncan, On the Physical Causes of the High Rate of Mortality in Liverpool (1843)*; G S Kenrick, Statistics of Merthyr Tydvil, Journal of the Statistical Society of London (1846); G Percy, Homes of the London Workmen, Macmillans Magazine (1862); Report on the Condition of the Poorer Classes of Edinburgh and of their Dwellings, Neighbourhoods, and Families (1868)*; A Mearns, Light and Shade (1885); M Jeune, The Homes of the Poor, Fortnightly Review (1890); A Newsholme, The Vital Statistics of Peabody Buildings and Other Artizans and Labourers Block Dwellings, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (1891)*; The Social Condition of the Poor in Glasgow, Scottish Review (1892)*; G Haw, No Room to Live (1899)*; P Fyfe, Back Lands and their Inhabitants (1901)*; L Phillimore, The Overcrowding of London, Monthly Review (1901). Part III: The Working-Class Family Statistics of Vauxhall Ward, Liverpool: shewing the actual condition of more than five thousand families ... (1842)*; Good Words Commissioner, The Distress in South Wales, Good Words (1878); H E Acraman Coate, Some Phases of Poor Life, Eastward Ho (1885); W Cudworth, Condition of the Industrial Classes of Bradford and District (1887)*; T Wright, The Pinch of Poverty (1892)*; A Heather-Bigg, The Wifes Contribution to the Family Income, Economic Journal (1894); Economic Club, Family Budgets, Being the Income ... (1896)*; S Webb, The Decline in the Birth Rate (1907)*; C V Butler, Social Conditions in Oxford (1912)*.

Volume 2: Work
Part I: Working Conditions F Place, Hand Loom Weavers and Factory Workers (1835)*; J Leach, Stubborn Facts from the Factories (1844)*; W Jones, Unhealthy Employments, New Monthly Magazine (1856); Birmingham Factory Children, Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art (1865); G Eccarius, The Hours of Labour (1872)*; G Bevan, Industrial Classes and Industrial Statistics (18767)*; R Rowe, How Our Working People Live (1882)*; British Weekly Commissioners, Toilers in London ... Female Labour in the Metropolis (1889)*; J T Arlidge, The Hygiene, Diseases and Mortality of Occupations (1892)*; F Merttens, The Hours and Conditions of Labour in the Cotton Industry at Home and Abroad, Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society (18934)*; M H Irwin, The Problem of Home Work, Westminster Review (1897); B S Knollys, A Factory Girls Day, Belgravia: A London Magazine (1897)*; E F Hogg, The Fur-Pullers of South London, Nineteenth Century (1897); H J Tennant, Dangerous Trades, Fortnightly Review (1899); A Russell, Four Days in a Factory, Contemporary Review (1903); C Smith, Dangerous Trades Economic Review (1905); C V Butler, Social Conditions in Oxford (1912)*. Part II: Skill, Gender and Age Distinctions The Factory System, Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1833)*; D S, VIII The Factories, London and Westminster Review (1836)*; [J D Milne], Industrial and Social Position of Women in the Middle and Lower Ranks (1857)*; The Employment of Females, Taits Edinburgh Magazine (1860)*; G Howell, Trades Unions, Apprentices, and Technical Education, Contemporary Review (1877)*; T Barnardo, A City Waif: How I Fished for and Caught Her (c.1885)*; E F S Dilke, The Industrial Position of Women, Fortnightly Review (1893); F Hird, The Cry of the Children: an Exposure of the Industries in which British Children are Iniquitously Employed (1898)*; N Adler, Child Workers and Wage-Earners, Journal of the Royal Society of the Arts (1908); R A Bray, The Apprenticeship Question, The Economic Journal (1909). Part III: Worker Organization Journeyman Bootmaker, An Address to the Members of Trade Unions and to the Working Classes Generally (1833)*; The Rights of Labour Defended, or, The Trial of the Glasgow Cotton Spinners (1837)*; J Boyle, An

Account of Strikes in the Potteries, in the Years 1834 and 1836, Journal of the Statistical Society of London (1838); G Potter, The Trade Societies of England, from the Workmans Point of View, Contemporary Review (1870)*; The Growth of a Trades Union, North British Review (1870)*; J Burnett, Nine Hours Movement (1872)*; G Howell, Trade-Unions: Their Nature, Character, and Work, Frasers Magazine (1879); L T Hobhouse, Conflicts of Capital and Labour, Economic Review (1891); W Mather, Labour and the Hours of Labour: The Industrial Problem of the Day, Contemporary Review (1892)*.

Volume 3: Culture
Part I: Traditional Popular Leisure A Country Clergyman, Country Wakes, British Magazine (1837); Country Wakes, Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1837); Report Delivered to the Society for the Suppression of Sunday Wakes, British Magazine (1839); Derby Foot-Ball, On Shrove-Tuesday, London Saturday Journal (1840); The Lancashire Wakes, Chamberss Edinburgh Journal (1842); P Whittle, Blackburn as it Is (1852)*; R J Denman, Stepney Fair, Ainsworths Magazine (1852); Village Feasts and Wakes, London Review of Politics, Society, Literature, Art, and Science (1866); R H Horne, The Burlesque and the Beautiful, Contemporary Review (1871)*; M G Watkins, A Devonshire Merry-Making, Belgravia: A London Magazine (1883); G A Rowell, Notes on Some Old-Fashioned English Customs: The Mummers; The Morris-Dancers; Witsun-Ales; Lamb Ales, The FolkLore Journal (1886); A Burton, Rush-Bearing (1891)*. Part II: Working-Class Leisure and Its Critics The Lungs of London, Blackwoods Magazine (1839); White (Mrs.), Saturday Night in London, Ainsworths Magazine (1846); Artizans Prize Essays, On the Influence of Rational and Elevating Amusements upon the Working Classes (1849)*; W Logan, The Moral Statistics of Glasgow (1849); W G Reid, Street-Loungers and Street-Lounging, The Workingmans Friend and Family Instructor (1850); W H Macfarlane, Mechanics Institutions and their Tendencies, Workingmans Friend and Family Instructor (1850); G R Porter, On the Self-Imposed Taxation of the Working Classes in the United Kingdom, Journal of the Statistical Society of London (1850); Aspects of the Working Classes. No. V Drinking Customs (1851); Popular Amusements in Large Cities, Scottish Review (1853); One-Sided Law, Chamberss Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts (1854); Popular Amusements, London Review and Weekly Journal of Politics, Literature, Art, and Society (1860) Citizen of Edinburgh [Thomas Knox], Public Houses which are not Proper Houses for the Public (1861); A Lancashire Holiday, Quiver (1864); T Wright, Bill Bankss Day Out, Savage Club Papers (1868); J Welsh, The Public Houses (Scotland) Acts: Their

Success and Failure (1869)*; J Amos, Nine Years in Kent Street: or Intelligence from a Missionary Station in London (1870)*; M W Moggridge, Public Houses for the People (1879)*; C Hill, Would the Sunday Opening of Museums, Libraries, and Places of Amusement Increase or Diminish Sunday Drinking (1879); J Kay, The Church and Popular Recreations (1883); A Few Plain Reasons for the Sunday Opening of the National Museums, Libraries and Art Galleries (1890); F Low, Street Games, Strand Magazine (1891); E Ensor, The Football Madness, Contemporary Review (1898); E Morley, Hooliganism and Working Boys Clubs, Westminster Review (1901); E Pugh, Some London Street Amusements, in G Sims, ed., Living London (1903); H F Abell, The Football Fever, Macmillans Magazine (1904); C Russell, Manchester Boys: Sketches of Manchester Lads at Work and Play (1905)*; J M Hogge, The Facts of Gambling (1907)*. Part III: Associational Life Regulations of the Glasgow Power-Loom Tenters Friendly Society (1830); An Appeal for the London City Mission (1846); R Buchanan, The Spiritual Destitution of the Masses in Glasgow (1851)*; H Fawcett, CoOperative Societies; Their Social and Economical Aspects, Macmillans Magazine (1860); Co-Operative Societies, Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1867); W Gilbert, The Gin-Palace and the Working Mans Club, Good Words (1872); T Hughes and E V Neale, A Manual for Co-operators (1881); C Hardwick, The History, Present Position, and Social Importance of Friendly Societies (1893)*; G Haw, ed., Christianity and the Working Classes (1906)*; M Loane, The Queens Poor (1910)*.

Volume 4: Power
Part I: Radical and Party Politics The Peoples Charter and National Petition (Kilmarnock Working Mens Association) (1839); The Chartist Riots in South Wales, Examiner (1839); B B, A Night with the Chartists, Frost, Williams, and Jones: A narrative of adventures in Monmouthshire (1847); Tory Freeholder, An Appeal to Lord John Russell on behalf of the Working Population/by a Tory freeholder (1848); A Chartist, To the Oppressed and Mystified People of Great Britain [1849]; G J Harney, To the Working Classes, Democratic Review (1849); W A Abram, Social Conditions and Political Prospects of the Lancashire Workman, Fortnightly Review (1868); Conservative Demonstration at the Crystal Palace. Speech of Mr. Disraeli, Supplement to Berrows Worcester Journal (1872); H Crompton, The Workmens Victory, Fortnightly Review (1875); J S Curwen, The Conflict of Classes in English Social Life: A Paper Read at the Workmens Club, Stratford (1877); G Potter, The Conservative Working Man and the Liberal Working Man (1878); T Burt, Working Men and War, Fortnightly Review (1882); J Keir Hardie, The

Labour Party, The New Review (1892); J Keir Hardie, The Independent Labour Party, Nineteenth Century (1895); J Chamberlain, Want of Employment and the Development of Free Markets, Foreign and Colonial Speeches (1897). Part II: The Working Class and the Authorities S Roberts, The Paupers Advocate: A Cry from the Brink of the Grave against the New Poor Law (1841)*; Assaults on the Police, Examiner (1848); The Criminality of the Metropolis, Ragged School Union Magazine (1850); F Power Cobbe, Workhouse Sketches, Macmillans Magazine (1861); T W Saunders, Metropolitan Police Court Jottings (1882)*; J Greenwood, The Prisoner in the Dock (1902)*; J T Biggs, Leicester: Sanitation versus Vaccination (1912)*;

A Martin, The Mother and Social Reform, Part II, The Nineteenth Century and After (1913). Part III: Power and Authority in Families and Communities B Brierley, Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life (1863)*; F Power Cobbe, Wife Torture in England, Contemporary Review (1878); T W Saunders, Metropolitan Police Court Jottings (1882)*; M M Blake, Are Women Protected?, Westminster Review (1892); M S Crawford, Maltreatment of Wives, Westminster Review (1893); J Greenwood, The Prisoner in the Dock (1902)*; M Loane, The Queens Poor (1910)*; A Martin, The Mother and Social Reform, Part I, The Nineteenth Century and After (1913)*.
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