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Henry Mayhew's London

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

J. R. T. Hughes
J. R. T. Hughes
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Northwestern University
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , September 1969 , pp. 526 - 536
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1969

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References

1 The final printing was entitled Life and Labour of the People in London by Macmillan –03, 17 volumes. A study of Booth with excerpts has been recently published: Pfautz, Harold, Charles Booth on the City (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967).Google Scholar

2 I have never met anyone personally who claimed to have actually read all of the Booth volumes. I well recall staring in dismay at the long row of volumes, bound in white kid, that was delivered to me years ago in the Bodleian Library when I had ordered Booth up from the stacks in utter ignorance of what I was proposing to read and take notes on, with my pad of paper and ball-point pen.

3 III, 303–4.

4 I, 195.

5 I, 223.

6 I, 466.

7 I, 458.

8 IV, 223.

9 II, 73, 74.

10 III, 428.

11 I, iv.

12 III, 398.

13 Gayer, A. D., Rostow, W. W., and Schwartz, A. J., The Growth and Fluctuation of the British Economy, 1790–1850 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1953) I, 304–41Google Scholar; and Hughes, J. R. T., Fluctuations in Trade, Industry and Finance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960), pp. 27–33Google Scholar, for commentary on the cyclical history of the British economy, 1843–1860.

14 These are treated briefly in Cunningham, W., The Growth of English Industry and Commerce in Modern Times (New York, [Eng.]: Cambridge University Press, 1907) III, 808–9.Google Scholar

15 III, 375.

16 III, 395.

17 III, 396.

18 III, 429.

19 Mayhew quotes correspondence and instructions of the Commissioners of the Poor Law (III, 393–94) on this point.

20 Cunningham treats these laws all the way back to Richard II's reign, to 1389 (Industry and Commerce, I, 407, 536–41). Mayhew gives a brief account in IV, 394–96. See also Hammond, J. L. and Hammond, Barbara, The Bleak Age (London: Pelican Books, 1947), chap. VII.Google Scholar

21 Thus I cannot agree on this point with Girvetz, H. V., “Welfare State,” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (New York: Macmillan and The Free Press, 1968), XVI, 514.Google Scholar

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