Higgs, Mary, 1854-
Glimpses into the Abyss [recurso electrónico] / Mary Higgs - Project Gutenberg, 2012 - Project Gutenberg 40122 .
Vagrancy: an essay awarded the Girton Gamble Prize, 1906 -- Five days and five nights as a tramp among tramps -- A northern tramp ward -- A night in a Salvation Army shelter -- Three nights in women's lodging-houses -- Common lodging-house life -- London investigations -- A symposium in a common lodging-house -- Vagrancy: its relation to the Industrial Revolution -- Appendices: Transfer of casuals to police supervision. Summary of recommendations of Vagrancy Committee. Labour colonies: summary. Women: report of Vagrancy Committee. Evils of short sentences. Preface by Canon Hicks, of Salford, to "Five days and nights as a tramp among tramps." Immorality as caused by destitution among women. Common lodging-houses versus shelters.
Public domain in the USA.
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Lodging-houses -- Great Britain Poor -- Great Britain Vagrancy -- Great Britain Prostitution -- Great Britain Women -- Employment -- Great Britain
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Glimpses into the Abyss [recurso electrónico] / Mary Higgs - Project Gutenberg, 2012 - Project Gutenberg 40122 .
Vagrancy: an essay awarded the Girton Gamble Prize, 1906 -- Five days and five nights as a tramp among tramps -- A northern tramp ward -- A night in a Salvation Army shelter -- Three nights in women's lodging-houses -- Common lodging-house life -- London investigations -- A symposium in a common lodging-house -- Vagrancy: its relation to the Industrial Revolution -- Appendices: Transfer of casuals to police supervision. Summary of recommendations of Vagrancy Committee. Labour colonies: summary. Women: report of Vagrancy Committee. Evils of short sentences. Preface by Canon Hicks, of Salford, to "Five days and nights as a tramp among tramps." Immorality as caused by destitution among women. Common lodging-houses versus shelters.
Public domain in the USA.
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Lodging-houses -- Great Britain Poor -- Great Britain Vagrancy -- Great Britain Prostitution -- Great Britain Women -- Employment -- Great Britain
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