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Book SynopsisLondon's masterpiece of investigative journalism
Trade Review'Written with the smoldering anger of turn-of-the-century revolutionary socialism. An incredibly important and readable book, which reminds us of how economic exploitation must always be fought, that we must always be educated in the lives of the unfortunate' -- Jack London Journal
'During my youth I walked the streets of East London, following in the footsteps of Jack London. He brought back, so movingly to this young reader, the poverty and suffering as well as the laughter and tears manifest in the outcasts and dispossessed of our locale at that time. Together with the revelations of Charles Booth, G.R. Sims et al, that book helped shatter the smug composure of Edwardian England, as well as providing a transatlantic bestseller' -- Professor William J. Fishman, Queen Mary and Westfield College
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Preface
1. The Descent
2. Johnny Upright
3. My Lodging and Some Others
4. A Man and the Abyss
5. Those on the Edge
6. Frying-Pan Alley and a Glimpse of the Inferno
7. A Winner of the Victoria Cross
8. The Carter and the Carpenter
9. The Spike
10. Carrying the Banner
11. The Peg
12. Coronation Day
13. Dan Cullen, Docker
14. Hops and Hoppers
15. The Sea Wife
16. Property Versus Person
17. Inefficiency
18. Wages
19. The Ghetto
20. Coffee-Houses and Doss-Houses
21. The Precariousness of Life
22. Suicide
23. The Children
24. A Vision of the Night
25. The Hunger Wall
26. Drink, Temperance, and Thrift
27. The Management
