Table of Contents
List of Plates vii
List of Tables, Maps, and Figures ix
Preface to the 2013 Edition xiii
Preface to the 1984 Edition xxvii
Preface xxxix
Abbreviations xli
Introduction 1
Part I The London Labour Market and the Casual Labour Problem
1 London as an Industrial Centre 19
2 Seasonality of Production 33
3 Casual Labour: Numbers and Occupations 52
4 The Structure of the Casual Labour Market 67
5 The Development of the Casual Labour Market in East London 99
6 Casual Labour and Rural Immigration: the Theory of Urban Degeneration 127
7 The Crisis of the Inner Industrial Perimeter 152
Part II Housing and the Casual Poor
8 The Transformation of Central London 159
9 The Search for a Palliative before 1875 179
10 Cleansing the Augean Stables 197
11 The Housing Crisis in the 1880s 215
Supplementary Tables for Part II 231
Part III Middle-Class London and the Problem of the Casual Poor
12 Prologue 239
13 The Deformation of the Gift: the Problem of the 1860s 241
14 The Economics of 'Demoralization.' 262
15 'Moralizing' the Casual Poor 271
16 From 'Demoralization' to 'Degeneration': the Threat of Outcast London 281
17 The Impact of the Dock Strike 315
18 Epilogue: The Casual Poor in the Age of Imperialism 322
19 Postscript: Socialism and the Casual Poor 337
Appendix 1 Notes on the Reclassification of the 1861 and 1891 Censuses into Social and Industrial Groupings 350
Appendix 2 Statistical Tables, Charts, and Figures 358
Select Bibliography 394
Index 413
