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Let Me Take You by the Hand

By Jennifer Kavanagh

Let Me Take You by the Hand Social Sciences

Let Me Take You by the Hand

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'What shines through this wonderfully engaging book is the author's genuine assumption that every life matters and, if we care to listen, has important things to tell us about our own.' Guardian On the surface, the streets of London in 1861 and in 2019 are entirely different places. But dig just a little and the similarities are striking and, in many cases, shocking. Taking Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor as inspiration, Jennifer Kavanagh explores the changes and continuities by collecting and mapping stories from today's London. Beggars, street entertainers, stalls selling a variety of food, clothes, second-hand goods, thieves and the sex trade are all still predominant. The rise of the gig economy has brought a multitude of drivers and cyclists, delivering and moving goods, transporting meals and people, all organized through smart phones but using the same streets as Mayhew's informants. The precarity faced by this new workforce would also be familiar to the street-sellers of Mayhew's day. In terms of resources, gone are the workhouses, almshouses, paupers' lunatic asylums. Enter shelters, day centres, hostels, and food banks. Let Me Take You By The Hand is an x-ray of life on the streets today: the stories in their own words of those who work and live in our capital.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
416
Release Date:
2022-03-03
Publication Date:
2022-03-03
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0349144249
ISBN13:
9780349144245
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
328 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
195 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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