Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
It would be a work of supererogation to extol the utility of such a publication as “London Labour and the London Poor,” so apparent must be its value to all classes of society. It stands alone as a photograph of life as actually spent by the lower classes of the Metropolis. Th...
ii. “Dress Lodgers,” or those who give either a portion or the whole of what they get to the mistress of the brothel in return for their board, lodging, and clothes.
16. Chapter 101, sect. 12, empowers the Poor Law Commissioners to prescribethe duties of the masters to whom poor children may be apprenticed, and the terms and conditions of the indentures of apprenticeship: and no poor children are in future to be ap...
14. did. He told my master I was plundering him; but my master would notbelieve him until he pointed out a low coffee-house where I used to go, which was frequented by bad characters. My master came into this den of infamy one evening when I was the...
1. VOLUME FOURIt would be a work of supererogation to extol the utility of such a publication as “London Labour and the London Poor,” so apparent must be its value to all classes of society....
11. iii. Those engaged in carrying to and from different parts of the same_a._ The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury; the Secretaries of State for Home, Foreign, and Colonial Affairs; the Chancellor and Comptroller of the Exchequer; the Privy Counci...
15. c. 3 and 4 (1598), every able-bodied person refusing to work for theordinary wages was to be “openly whipped until his body should be bloody, and forthwith sent from parish to parish, the most strait way to the parish where he was born, there to...
2. xvii. Quack, and other Medicine Manufacturers, as Pills, Powders,3. Workers connected with the Superlative Arts, that is to say, with those arts which have no products of their own, and are engaged either in adding to the beauty or usefulness...
6. iii. Trading Operative Employers, or those who obtain work inβ. “Lumper” Employers, or those who contract to do the work by the lump, which is usually paid for by the piece, and employ others at reduced wages in order to complete it.
8. vi. Felling, lopping, hewing, chopping (as fire-wood), cutting (as2. Agents, or those who are engaged in the buying or selling of commodities for others, as Land Agents, House and Estate Agents, Colonial and East India Agents, &c., &c.
9. ii. Plate, linen, furniture, piano-fortes, flowers, fancy dresses,4. By games of chance, as Lotteries (with the “Art Union”), Raffles (at Fancy Fairs), Tossing (with piemen and others), Prizes for skill (with throwing sticks, &c.), Betting, Ra...
7. iii. Oiling (engines), greasing (railway wheels), pitching or tarring5. iii. Those who retail the appurtenances of the trade to which they3. i. Standard Employers, or those who work at the regular standard12. xiv. Mudlarks, or those who steal pieces of rope and lumps of coal10. ii. Those engaged in carrying inland from town to town, as--4. ii. Those who retail other things (generally provisions), and compel