1st Edition
The Eternal Slum Housing and Social Policy in Victorian London
By Anthony Wohl
Copyright 1977
428 Pages
by
Routledge
428 Pages
by
Routledge
412 Pages
by
Routledge
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The problem of how, where, and on what terms to house the urban masses in an industrial society remains unresolved to this day. In nineteenth-century Victorian England, overcrowding was the most obvious characteristic of urban housing and, despite constant agitation, it remained widespread and persistent in London and other great cities such as Manchester, Glasgow, and Liverpool well into the... Read more
1: Terra Incognita; 2: The Inexorable Tide; 3: The Homes of the Heathen; 4: The Weight of the Law; 5: Preventive Machinery; 6: Philanthropy at Five per cent; 7: Benevolent Despotism; 8: The Bitter Cry; 9: A Certain Socialism; 10: Housing in Committee; 11: The Call of the Suburbs; 12: The Stuff of Politics
Biography
Anthony Wohl
