Labour and the Poor Volume X: Liverpool

by Charles Mackay

Book Overview

Liverpool in 1850. On the ground reporting from this bustling port city - with personal accounts from the people themselves.

Liverpool was a city alive with people from all over the world - home to a multitude of sailors awaiting their next passage, Irish immigrants escaping famine at home, emigrants awaiting departure to the New World, and the "crimps, sharpers, mancatchers, and the multifarious varieties of the genus 'rogue'"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1913515206
• ISBN13: 9781913515201
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Ditto Books
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"