“I shall consider the whole of the metropolitan poor in three separate phases, according as they will work, they can't work, and they won't work.”

— Henry Mayhew

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About Henry Mayhew

Journalist • English

Henry Mayhew was a pioneering English journalist, social researcher, and playwright born in London. He is most famous for co-founding the satirical magazine Punch in 1841 and for his monumental work, London Labour and...

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