Labour and the Poor Volume IX: Birmingham

Birmingham in 1850. On the ground reporting of life in the manufacturing metropolis of Victorian Britain.

In this volume Charles Mackay takes us to Birmingham where thousands of workshops were turning out a vast range of goods, supplying the nation and the world. From the makers of swords, matchetts, and bayonets to the manufacture of fire-arms. From pearl buttons to pens, from workers in glass to workers in brass. From the factory women to the Ragged Schools for their children and the amuse...