History: Honest Toil in London
Course details
Course code
Q00012145Course date
Number of classes
8 sessionsBranch
Walthamstow BranchTutor
George O'ReillyFee range
How you'll learn
Venue
Peter House Community Centre (London)122 Forest Rise
Walthamstow
London
E17 3PW
Qualification name & awarding organisation
Level of study
Availability
Course overview
Course description
The world of the ‘labouring classes’ in London in the nineteenth century will be examined through the lens of a range of writers from the period, such as Henry Mayhew, Annie Besant, Charles Booth, Elizabeth Gaskell and William Morris.
The course will range across a variety of employments, from the street sellers to the shop workers, from the navvies to the dockers, from domestic service to shop work, from the factory to the sweat shop. The course will also examine how employment was affected by developments in education, transport, trade unionism and Parliamentary representation.
The course will discuss and compare nineteenth century attitudes to work with present day attitudes - the foundations of the modern world of work were laid during the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century.
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