MAYHEW, H.: London Labour and the London Poor (Unabridged)

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887, Author.

Contributor:

Naxos Digital Services US.

Series:

Naxos Music Library.

Naxos Music Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 2018.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

London Labour and the London Poor ( 06 min., 38 sec. )

1: Street-folk ( 01 min., 36 sec. )

Street-folk Of wandering tribes in general ( 09 min., 32 sec. )

Wandering tribes in this country ( 02 min., 35 sec. )

Of the number of costermongers and other street-folk ( 10 min., 35 sec. )

Of the varieties of street-folk in general, and costermongers in particular ( 06 min., 03 sec. )

Habits and amusements of costermongers ( 10 min., 52 sec. )

The other amusements of this class of the community are the theatre and the penny concert ( 09 min., 54 sec. )

Gambling of costermongers ( 12 min., 32 sec. )

The 'Vic. Gallery' ( 10 min., 59 sec. )

The politics of costermongers - policemen ( 05 min., 09 sec. )

Marriage and concubinage of costermongers ( 04 min., 31 sec. )

Religion of costermongers ( 04 min., 15 sec. )

Of the uneducated state of costermongers ( 07 min., 14 sec. )

Language of costermongers ( 02 min., 30 sec. )

Of the nicknames of costermongers ( 01 min., 23 sec. )

Of the education of costermongers' children ( 01 min., 46 sec. )

The literature of costermongers ( 03 min., 18 sec. )

Of the costermongers' capital ( 01 min., 45 sec. )

Of the 'slang' weights and measures ( 04 min. )

Of the boys of the costermongers, and their bunts ( 04 min., 45 sec. )

Education of the 'coster-lads' ( 06 min., 55 sec. )

The life of a coster-lad ( 07 min., 06 sec. )

Of the 'penny gaff' ( 04 min., 33 sec. )

The visitors, with a few exceptions, were all boys and girls ( 14 min., 39 sec. )

Of the coster-girls ( 11 min., 58 sec. )

The life of a coster-girl ( 10 min., 53 sec. )

Of the homes of the costermongers ( 12 min., 40 sec. )

Of the dress of the costermongers ( 08 min., 35 sec. )

Of the diet and drink of costermongers ( 03 min., 08 sec. )

Of the earnings of costermongers ( 10 min. )

Of the capital and income of the costermongers ( 01 min., 33 sec. )

Of the providence and improvidence of costermongers ( 05 min., 20 sec. )

Of the costermongers in bad weather and during the cholera ( 03 min., 07 sec. )

Of the costermongers' raffles ( 02 min., 32 sec. )

Of the tricks of costermongers ( 04 min., 37 sec. )

2: Minorities ( 01 min., 11 sec. )

Minorities: Of the street Irish ( 05 min., 08 sec. )

Of the causes which have made the Irish turn costermongers ( 07 min., 41 sec. )

How the street Irish displanted the Jews in the orange trade ( 07 min., 24 sec. )

Of the religion of the street-Irish ( 09 min., 56 sec. )

Of the education, literature, amusements and politics of the street-Irish ( 03 min., 07 sec. )

The homes of the street-Irish ( 13 min., 14 sec. )

Irish lodging-houses for immigrants ( 04 min., 13 sec. )

In one of the worst class of lodging-houses ( 09 min., 23 sec. )

Of the diet, drink and expense of living of the street-Irish ( 11 min., 31 sec. )

Of the resources of the street-Irish as regards stock money, sickness, burials, andc. ( 05 min., 34 sec. )

Of the history of some Irish street-sellers ( 09 min., 33 sec. )

Of the Irish refuse-sellers ( 06 min., 14 sec. )

The street-Jews ( 02 min., 36 sec. )

Of the trades and localities of the street-Jews ( 09 min., 12 sec. )

Of the Jew old-clothes men ( 12 min., 21 sec. )

Of a Jew street-seller ( 03 min., 45 sec. )

Of the Jew-boy street-sellers ( 08 min., 51 sec. )

Of the pursuits, dwellings, traffic, et cetera, of the Jew ( 04 min., 36 sec. )

Of the street Jewesses and street Jew-girls ( 05 min., 32 sec. )

Of the synagogues and the religion of the street - and other Jews ( 07 min., 33 sec. )

Of the politics, literature, and amusements of the Jews ( 05 min., 54 sec. )

Of the charities, schools, and education of the Jews ( 13 min., 38 sec. )

The Negro crossing-sweeper, who had lost both his legs ( 10 min., 29 sec. )

The loss of my limbs is bad enough ( 11 min., 44 sec. )

The Negro cook ( 04 min., 34 sec. )

3: Voices of the poor: The Employed and the Destitute ( 01 min., 18 sec. )

Voices of the poor: Street-sellers of 'wet' fish ( 02 min., 05 sec. )

Street-sellers of 'wet' fish ( 07 min., 21 sec. )

Street-sellers of sprats ( 07 min., 13 sec. )

Street-sellers of shell-fish ( 07 min., 25 sec. )

Street sellers of fruit and vegetables ( 01 min., 16 sec. )

Superior or -aristocratic- vegetable sellers ( 06 min., 38 sec. )

Of the character of the street-stalls ( 01 min., 42 sec. )

A fruit-stall keeper ( 08 min., 37 sec. )

The London flower-girls ( 51 sec. )

Of two orphan flower-girls ( 09 min., 29 sec. )

Of the life of a flower-girl [who had kept 'loose' company] ( 03 min., 35 sec. )

The street-sellers of fried fish ( 01 min., 12 sec. )

Fishy' the trader in fried fish ( 11 min., 52 sec. )

The street-sellers of baked potatoes ( 01 min., 07 sec. )

A baked potato vendor ( 05 min., 45 sec. )

The cats'-and dogs'- meat dealers ( 51 sec. )

A cats'-meat carrier ( 03 min., 51 sec. )

Street-sellers of drinkables (coffee) ( 01 min., 08 sec. )

A coffee-vendor in a small way of business ( 08 min., 16 sec. )

Sellers of hot-cross buns ( 04 min., 02 sec. )

The muffin man ( 05 min., 16 sec. )

Street-orators ( 01 min., 07 sec. )

Of running patterers ( 03 min., 06 sec. )

The street-buyers ( 01 min., 15 sec. )

Street-buyers of rags and bones ( 41 sec. )

The rag-and-bone man ( 07 min., 25 sec. )

Street-sellers of second-hand articles ( 01 min. )

Seller of second-hand metal-wares ( 07 min., 06 sec. )

The 'pure'-finders ( 01 min., 26 sec. )

A female pure finder ( 11 min., 29 sec. )

The mud-larks ( 54 sec. )

A child mud-lark ( 05 min., 42 sec. )

The experiences of a juvenile mud-lark ( 10 min., 29 sec. )

Scavengers ( 47 sec. )

A 'regular scavager' ( 11 min., 02 sec. )

Omnibus drivers and conductors ( 01 min., 23 sec. )

An omnibus driver ( 05 min., 06 sec. )

An omnibus conductor ( 05 min., 47 sec. )

Carmen and porters ( 01 min., 20 sec. )

Van driver ( 03 min., 12 sec. )

Crossing-sweepers ( 01 min., 28 sec. )

The old dame who supports a pensioner ( 03 min., 48 sec. )

Mary, who had been a serving-maid ( 07 min., 05 sec. )

At Christmas, I think I took about eleven shillings ( 05 min., 20 sec. )

Gander, 'captain' of the boy crossing-sweepers ( 07 min., 38 sec. )

I wasn't working in a gang then, but all by myself ( 07 min., 25 sec. )

The street where the boy-sweepers lodged ( 06 min., 14 sec. )

The boy sweepers' room ( 02 min., 30 sec. )

Flushermen ( 29 sec. )

The flusherman who had been a seaman ( 07 min., 27 sec. )

Cesspool-sewermen ( 01 min., 07 sec. )

A cesspool-sewerman's statement ( 04 min., 40 sec. )

Chimney-sweeps ( 01 min., 09 sec. )

A 'knuller' or 'querier' ( 06 min., 19 sec. )

Ballast-heavers and coal-whippers ( 01 min., 47 sec. )

The meeting of the ballast-heavers' wives ( 07 min., 30 sec. )

An infirm woman, approaching fifty years of age ( 07 min., 48 sec. )

Asylum for the Houseless Poor ( 41 sec. )

The Asylum for the Houseless Poor ( 03 min., 16 sec. )

A homeless painter ( 05 min., 35 sec. )

A homeless carpenter ( 05 min., 29 sec. )

A homeless tailor ( 08 min., 02 sec. )

4: The london labour market and the casual labour problem ( 01 min., 24 sec. )

The london labour market and the casual labour problem: Casual labour ( 10 min., 03 sec. )

A tall Irishman of about 34 or 35 ( 10 min., 09 sec. )

These several causes, then, which could only exist ( 09 min., 51 sec. )

Of over-work, as regards excessive labour ( 09 min., 42 sec. )

Almost all who work by the day, or for a fixed salary ( 08 min., 15 sec. )

Concerning this 'strapping' system ( 09 min., 58 sec. )

One great promoter of the decrease of manual labour ( 10 min., 48 sec. )

Formerly throughout the kingdom ( 09 min., 58 sec. )

My employer was a journeyman ( 10 min., 16 sec. )

In the winter, by this means ( 09 min., 46 sec. )

On the table was a bundle of crape and bombazine ( 08 min., 43 sec. )

I am a native of Pesth ( 10 min., 02 sec. )

The annual rate of increase among the population has been 0.9 per cent ( 09 min., 52 sec. )

1831: Annual average number of criminals commited ( 11 min., 09 sec. )

We have now, I believe, exhausted the several causes of that vast national evil ( 04 min., 16 sec. )

Of the casual labourers among the rubbish carters ( 12 minutes, 32 sec.

)

The effects of casual labour in general ( 09 min. )

Of the scurf trade among the rubbish-carters ( 11 min. )

Boy labour or thief labour ( 11 min., 30 sec. )

The last mentioned of the several modes of cheapening labour ( 10 min., 47 sec. )

There is, moreover, the cheaper labour of apprentices ( 11 min., 26 sec. )

Skilled and unskilled ( 30 sec. )

Garret-masters' ( 09 min., 31 sec. )

The decline which has taken place within the last twenty years ( 09 min., 02 sec. )

But not only is it true that over-work makes under-pay ( 07 min., 47 sec. )

Scavengers et cetera ( 32 sec. )

Scavengers ( 09 min., 06 sec. )

There is only one mode of payment for the above labours ( 10 min., 17 sec. )

Casual hands' among the scavengers ( 09 min., 55 sec. )

In the city the men have to work very long hours ( 08 min., 17 sec. )

When a scavager is out of employ, he seldom or never applies to the parish ( 08 min., 35 sec. )

Coal-heavers and dock labourers ( 31 sec. )

Coal-heavers and -whippers ( 09 min., 23 sec. )

My informant tells me that he has frequently seen as many as 100 ( 11 min., 06 sec. )

The machine is a large coal-scuttle or wooden box ( 13 min., 43 sec. )

Dock labourers ( 06 min., 27 sec. )

The London Dock ( 09 min., 35 sec. )

At trucking each man is said to go on an average thirty miles a-day ( 11 min., 08 sec. )

At last the landlord flung the door wide open ( 11 min., 21 sec. )

I have said that at one of the docks alone ( 07 min., 13 sec. )

The man himself gives the following explanation ( 08 min., 53 sec. )

The problem of low wages ( 31 sec. )

Review of the problem of low wages ( 10 min., 32 sec. )

The indirect modes of remedying low wages ( 08 min., 53 sec. )

This enumeration is as comprehensive as my knowledge will enable me to make it ( 05 min., 49 sec. )

5: Sights of london ( 47 sec. )

Sights of london: Of the orange and nut market ( 09 min., 34 sec. )

Of London street-markets on a Saturday night ( 09 min., 11 sec. )

The Sunday morning markets ( 03 min., 44 sec. )

Of Covent-garden market ( 05 min., 26 sec. )

Inside the market all is bustle and confusion ( 05 min., 56 sec. )

Of the Old Clothes Exchange ( 10 min., 13 sec. )

The London Dock ( 07 min., 38 sec. )

The West India Docks ( 05 min., 49 sec. )

The St Katherine's Dock ( 11 min., 39 sec. )

6: Culture and belief ( 01 min., 51 sec. )

Culture and belief: Punch ( 11 min., 47 sec. )

They ain't whistles, but calls, or unknown tongues ( 10 min., 15 sec. )

Punch talk ( 38 sec. )

Scene with two Punchmen ( 01 min., 32 sec. )

The Punchman at the theatre ( 02 min., 09 sec. )

The history of Punch ( 04 min., 19 sec. )

Guy Fawkes ( 33 sec. )

Guy Fawkes (man) ( 10 min., 40 sec. )

They always reckon me to be about the first hand in London at building a guy ( 07 min., 39 sec. )

Silly Billy ( 09 min., 48 sec. )

Then the doctor turns to the crowd, and says ( 06 min., 31 sec. )

Of the experience of a street-bookseller ( 06 min., 13 sec. )

Street-vocalists ( 20 sec. )

Street negro serenaders ( 07 min., 49 sec. )

Statement of another Ethiopian serenader ( 07 min., 52 sec. )

Did you ever see her broder Biller ( 09 min., 24 sec. )

A standing patterer ( 02 min., 28 sec. )

The wooden-legged sweeper ( 09 min., 25 sec. )

Street-seller of saws ( 05 min., 03 sec. )

7: The poor at home: Poverty and the domestic economy ( 01 min., 13 sec. )

The poor at home: Questionnaire of street orderlies ( 10 min., 25 sec. )

Did their wives work? ( 09 min., 46 sec. )

Had they a change of dress? ( 07 min., 05 sec. )

Mayhews survey of the inmates of a lodging-house ( 10 min., 53 sec. )

Knowing that this lodging-house might be taken as a fair sample ( 09 min., 52 sec. )

After obtaining this information ( 07 min., 27 sec. )

The question that I put to them after this was ( 06 min., 50 sec. )

Of the life of a street-seller of dog-collars ( 12 min., 07 sec. )

The home comforts of a cats'-meat carrier ( 02 min., 57 sec. )

Street-seller of cutlery ( 12 min., 38 sec. )

8: Paupers and criminals ( 46 sec. )

Paupers and criminals: London vagrants ( 08 min., 29 sec. )

The cause of the greater amount of vagrancy being found ( 12 min., 25 sec. )

Characteristics of the various classes of vagrants ( 11 min., 35 sec. )

Of the original occupations or trades of the vagrants ( 08 min., 50 sec. )

My father,' he said, 'was a bricklayer in Shoreditch parish' ( 07 min., 09 sec. )

Statement of a returned convict ( 08 min., 30 sec. )

I was sentenced to 14 years' transportation ( 06 min., 59 sec. )

Lives of the boy inmates of the casual wards of the London workhouses ( 10 min., 33 sec. )

Of the character of the vagrants frequenting the unions in the centre of the metropolis ( 08 min., 41 sec. )

9: Classification of the workers and non-workers ( 57 sec. )

Classification of the workers and non-workers ( 10 min., 15 sec. )

Now, from the above it will appear, that there are four distinct classes of workers ( 10 min., 32 sec. )

10: Answers to correspondents ( 09 min., 48 sec. )

Money donated for the London Poor ( 08 min., 28 sec. )

A journeyman on coconuts ( 01 min., 09 sec. )

The library of a model dwelling-house ( 03 min., 24 sec. )

Free-trade and the working man ( 02 min., 49 sec. )

A draper on surveying his trade ( 04 min., 22 sec. )

The causes of prostitution ( 07 min., 59 sec. )

The Coal-Whippers' Journal ( 08 min., 09 sec. )

A letter from a bricklayers labourer ( 36 sec. )

A debate about labour and capital between F.B.B. and Henry Mayhew ( 06 min., 55 sec. )

The population question, in which F. B. B. goes 'the whole hog' ( 07 min., 51 sec. )

Rosemary O'Day Introduction: i: London Labour and the London Poor in the context of Mayhew's work ( 10 min., 14 sec. )

Mayhew's brief in the letters to the Morning Chronicle ( 09 min., 10 sec. )

Breakdown by marital status ( 11 min., 54 sec. )

The bias towards the skilled worker ( 06 min., 45 sec. )

ii: Mayhew and the framework for an analysis of poverty ( 10 min., 43 sec. )

iii: Mayhew and Utilitarianism ( 11 min., 02 sec. )

iv: Journalism ( 03 min., 04 sec. )

v: Social inquiry and social reform ( 13 min., 36 sec. )

vi: The Selection ( 04 minutes, 32 sec. )

Participant:

Timson, David, Reader -- Mayhew, Henry, Author

Notes:

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Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

9781781981542

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