Glimpses into the Abyss [recurso electrónico] / Mary Higgs
By: Higgs, Mary
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Continuing resourceAnalytics: Show analyticsPublisher: Project Gutenberg, 2012Subject(s): Lodging-houses -- Great Britain | Poor -- Great Britain | Vagrancy -- Great Britain | Prostitution -- Great Britain | Women -- Employment -- Great BritainLOC classification: HVOnline resources: Click here to access online 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.
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