This is Volume X of the London School of Economics, Scarce Tracts in Economics series and focuses on London Life in the Eighteenth Century. It attempts to give a picture of the conditions of life and work of the poorer classes in London in the eighteenth century.
INTRODUCTION: LONDON circa 1700-1815 CHAPTER I : LIFE AND DEATH IN LONDON CHAPTER II : HOUSING AND THE GROWTH OF LONDON CHAPTER III : LONDON IMMIGRANTS AND EMIGRANTS CHAPTER IV: THE PEOPLE AND THE TRADES OF LONDON CHAPTER V : PARISH CHILDREN AND POOR APPRENTICES CHAPTER VI : TH E UNCERTAINTIES OF LIFE AND TRADE, NOTES, APPENDICES.
Biography
M. Dorothy George, Late Research Scholar of Girion College and The London School of Economics and Political Science.
