East End, 1888 - Hardcover

Fishman, William J.

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ISBN 10: 0715621742 ISBN 13: 9780715621745

Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 1988

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Essential reading for anyone interested in social history and the history of London. Professor William Fishman shows what life was like for the labouring poor in the year of Jack the Ripper and the Matchgirls' strike, when poverty, crime, disease and social unrest were at their height. The communal life of the street, pubs and clubs softened the brutality of the daily grind, where the sweatshop, the ghetto, the poor tenement - and the threat of the workhouse - were ever present in an age of genuine 'Victorian values'.

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William (Bill) Fishman is the chronicler of London's East End. His other books include 'The Streets of East London' and 'East End Jewish Radicals 1875-1914'. He is the son of an immigrant tailor, a visiting professor at Queen Mary College London, and former visitng professor at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin. After retiring, he led East End walks and lectured in social history.

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