Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
The People's Journal, (edited by John Saunders,) Aims to Combine, in the Direct Service of the People, (using that Word to Express a Nation, Rather Than a Class,) a Greater Amount of Literary and Artistical Talent Than Has Ever Before Been Known in this Country in Connexion with Any Similar Publication
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
The People's Journal, (edited by John Saunders,) Aims to Combine, in the Direct Service of the People, (using that Word to Express a Nation, Rather Than a Class,) a Greater Amount of Literary and Artistical Talent Than Has Ever Before Been Known in this Country in Connexion with Any Similar Publication
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ISBN:
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
Author: Frederick EngelsPublisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3730964852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Condition of the Working Class in England is one of the best-known works of Friedrich Engels. Originally written in German as Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England, it is a study of the working class in Victorian England. It was also Engels' first book, written during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844. Manchester was then at the very heart of the Industrial Revolution, and Engels compiled his study from his own observations and detailed contemporary reports. Engels argues that the Industrial Revolution made workers worse off. He shows, for example, that in large industrial cities mortality from disease, as well as death-rates for workers were higher than in the countryside. In cities like Manchester and Liverpool mortality from smallpox, measles, scarlet fever and whooping cough was four times as high as in the surrounding countryside, and mortality from convulsions was ten times as high as in the countryside. The overall death-rate in Manchester and Liverpool was significantly higher than the national average (one in 32.72 and one in 31.90 and even one in 29.90, compared with one in 45 or one in 46). An interesting example shows the increase in the overall death-rates in the industrial town of Carlisle where before the introduction of mills (1779–1787), 4,408 out of 10,000 children died before reaching the age of five, and after their introduction the figure rose to 4,738. Before the introduction of mills, 1,006 out of 10,000 adults died before reaching 39 years old, and after their introduction the death rate rose to 1,261 out of 10,000.
Hereditary Genius
Author: Sir Francis GaltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genius
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, 1660-1916
Author: James SpruntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Views and Reviews
Author: Havelock EllisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Lancashire Folk-Lore
Author: John Wilkinson, T.T. HarlandPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732659143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Lancashire Folk-Lore by John Harland, T.T. Wilkinson
The Culture of Homelessness
Author: Megan RavenhillPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317036611
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Despite an extensive literature on homelessness there is surprisingly little work that investigates the roots of homelessness by tracking homeless people over time. In this fascinating and much-needed ethnographic study, Megan Ravenhill presents the results of ten years' research on the streets and in the hostels and day-centres of the UK, incorporating intensive interviews with 150 homeless and formerly homeless people as well as policy makers and professionals working with homeless people. Ravenhill discusses the biographical, structural and behavioural factors that lead to homelessness. Amongst the important and unique features of the study are: the use of life-route maps showing the circumstances and decisions that lead to homelessness, a systematic study of the timescales involved, and a survey of people's exit routes from homelessness. Ravenhill also identifies factors that predict those most vulnerable to homelessness and factors that prevent or considerably delay the onset of homelessness.
Collected Works
Author: John Stuart MillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
The Ethics of Identity
Author: Kwame Anthony AppiahPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069125477X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today’s complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalism Collective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and sexuality clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. To what extent do they constrain our freedom, and to what extent do they enable our individuality? Is diversity of value in itself? Has the rhetoric of human rights been overstretched? Kwame Anthony Appiah draws on thinkers through the ages and across the globe to explore such questions, developing an account of ethics that connects moral obligations with collective allegiances and that takes aim at clichés and received ideas about identity. This classic book takes seriously both the claims of individuality—the task of making a life—and the claims of identity, these large and often abstract social categories through which we define ourselves.