Why did working hours increase in eighteenth-century London? Labour supply decisions and consumer durables during the industrial revolution by Voth, H-J

Trade and industry : a policy for expension

Wulgarity and Witality: On Making a Spectacle of Oneself in Pickwick by Buzard, James

“…In Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor (1861), a massive, four-volume survey of urban workers living on the economic margins of Victorian society, city streets offer up plenty of appalling working-class vulgarity – strident voices, coarse language, gaudy clothing, and brazen behavior undisciplined by bourgeois standards of decency and reticence.1 But even as these crimes against propriety sharpen the contrast between the privileged observer and “the poor,” they also disturb the power relations between Mayhew and the subjects of his investigations. …”
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A Short Statistical Sketch of the Child Labour Market in Mid-Nineteenth Century London by Peter Kirby

“…The profusion of services and small trades that characterised the nineteenth-century London labour market makes it extremely difficult to arrive at any general understanding of the work of children and juveniles. …”
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Ken Livingstone : The Thorn in (New) Labour’s Side by Timothy Whitton

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