Labour and the Poor Volume VII: The Rural Districts (The Morning Chronicle’s Labour and the Poor Book 7) by Alexander MacKay


Labour and the Poor Volume VII: The Rural Districts (The Morning Chronicle’s Labour and the Poor Book 7)
Title : Labour and the Poor Volume VII: The Rural Districts (The Morning Chronicle’s Labour and the Poor Book 7)
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Language : English
Format Type : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 444
Publication : Published January 22, 2019

A vivid portrayal of rural life in Victorian England—with personal accounts from the rural poor.

On the ground reporting and interviews with the people in their homes, workplaces and on the streets make up the extraordinary and unsurpassed “Labour and the Poor” investigation into the poor of England and Wales, as printed in The Morning Chronicle newspaper between 1849 and 1851. This series is a faithful, complete and unabridged edition of the investigation, available in its entirety for the very first time.

In volume VII. Alexander Mackay and Shirley Brooks take us into the Northern and Midland counties and further explore the South Eastern and Eastern counties of England.

From hop-picking in Kent, to opium-eating in Cambridgeshire, we traverse these counties and discover a vast range of places, occupations and people. We look at education, crime and destitution in the northern counties. We visit the hop growing, straw-plait and lace-making districts and spend time with the boot and shoemakers of Northampton. Along our journey through the various counties we again enter the abodes of the agricultural labourers, discovering just how they lived.

A large proportion of the population in the mid-nineteenth century worked on the land and for those providing food for the nation life was hard. It was back-breaking work, long hours, low pay and terrible living conditions.

The Rural District volumes will guide you across the various landscapes and fishing grounds, hearing from the rural people themselves about their lives. The investigation covered a huge portion of the country and provides a superb account of rural life at that time.

This epic “Labour and the Poor” investigation provides a wonderful insight into the people of the period, their living and working conditions, their feelings, their language, their sufferings and their struggles for survival amidst the poverty and destitution of early Victorian Britain.

In this series: Volume I: The Metropolitan Districts. Henry Mayhew. Volume II: The Metropolitan Districts. Henry Mayhew. Volume III: The Metropolitan Districts. Henry Mayhew. Volume IV: The Metropolitan Districts. Henry Mayhew. Volume V: The Manufacturing Districts. Angus B. Reach. Volume VI: The Rural Districts. Alexander Mackay and Shirley Brooks. Volume VII: The Rural Districts. Alexander Mackay and Shirley Brooks. Volume VIII: Wales. Author Unknown. Volume IX: Birmingham. Charles Mackay. Volume X: Liverpool. Charles Mackay.

“No one who has even casually glanced over the admirable series of letters on the state of ‘Labour and the Poor in the Metropolitan, Rural, and Manufacturing Districts of England and Wales,’ which have for several weeks past appeared in the columns of The Morning Chronicle, can resist the conviction that a more complete exposition of the real condition of the labouring population throughout the kingdom has never been given to the world.”— The Sunday Times, February 3, 1850.