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Labour and the Poor Volume VI: The Rural Districts (The Morning Chronicle’s Labour and the Poor Book 6)

Labour and the Poor Volume VI: The Rural Districts (The Morning Chronicle’s Labour and the Poor Book 6)

Alexander MacKay
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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 VI. Alexander Mackay and Shirley Brooks enter the rural districts traversing the South Eastern, South Western and Eastern counties of England.We enter the dilapidated homes of the agricultural labourers and descend the mines of Cornwall. We hear accounts from labourers ending their days in the workhouse and explore incendiarism in Suffolk. We visit the Herring fishermen of Yarmouth and expose the workings of the “death” clubs in Essex. This and much more.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.
Pages
503
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
January 22, 2019

Labour and the Poor Volume VI: The Rural Districts (The Morning Chronicle’s Labour and the Poor Book 6)

Alexander MacKay
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
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 VI. Alexander Mackay and Shirley Brooks enter the rural districts traversing the South Eastern, South Western and Eastern counties of England.We enter the dilapidated homes of the agricultural labourers and descend the mines of Cornwall. We hear accounts from labourers ending their days in the workhouse and explore incendiarism in Suffolk. We visit the Herring fishermen of Yarmouth and expose the workings of the “death” clubs in Essex. This and much more.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.
Pages
503
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
January 22, 2019

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