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Index
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Plates
List of Tables, Maps, and Figures
Preface to the 2013 Edition
Preface to the 1984 Edition
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: The London Labour Market and the Casual Labour Problem
1. London as an Industrial Centre
2. Seasonality of Production
3. Casual Labour: Numbers and Occupations
4. The Structure of the Casual Labour Market
5. The Development of the Casual Labour Market in East London
6. Casual Labour and Rural Immigration: The Theory of Urban Degeneration
7. The Crisis of the Inner Industrial Perimeter
Part II: Housing and the Casual Poor
8. The Transformation of Central London
9. The Search for a Palliative Before 1875
10. Cleansing the Augean Stables
11. The Housing Crisis in the 1880s
Supplementary Tables for Part II
Part III: Middle-Class London and the Problem of the Casual Poor
12. Prologue
13. The Deformation of the Gift: The Problem of the 1860s
14. The Economics of ‘Demoralization’
15. ‘Moralizing’ the Casual Poor
16. From ‘Demoralization’ to ‘Degeneration’: The Threat of Outcast London
17. The Impact of the Dock Strike
18. Epilogue: The Casual Poor in the Age of Imperialism
19. Postscript: Socialism and the Casual Poor
Appendix 1: Notes on the Reclassification of the 1861 and 1891 Censuses Into Social and Industrial Groupings
Appendix 2: Statistical Tables, Charts, and Figures
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