This four volume primary resource collection is the most comprehensive of its kind and includes a multitude of sources that allows the user to chart the squalor, the noise, the conflict, the aspiration and the diversity of the working-class experience up to the outbreak of the First World War.

Andrew August

General Introduction, Introduction, Bibliography, I. Forming the Urban Working Class, II. Housing and Health, III. The Working-Class Family, Editorial Notes, Silent Corrections