Routledge Revivals: Metropolis London (1989)

David Feldman, Gareth Stedman Jones

List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction David Feldman and Gareth Stedman Jones; The social problem; 1 Jennings’ Buildings and the Royal Borough: The construction of the underclass in mid-Victorian England Jennifer Davis 2 The People’s Palace: An image for East London in the 1880s Deborah E.B. Weiner 3 The importance of being English: Jewish immigration and the decay of liberal England David Feldman 4 Free from chains? The image of women’s labour in London, 1900-20 Deborah Thom; Politics: visions and practices; 5 Radical clubs and London politics, 1870-1900 John Davis 6 ‘The millennium by return of post’: Reconsidering London Progressivism, 1889-1907 Susan Pennybacker 7 Popularism and proletarianism: Unemployment and Labour politics in London, 1918-34 James Gillespie 8 The suburban nation: Politics and class in Lewisham Tom Jeffery; Identities; 9 ‘Fierce questions and taunts’ Married life in working-class London, 1870-1914 Ellen Ross 10 Becoming a women in London in the 1920s and 1930s Sally Alexander 11 The ‘cockney’ and the nation, 1780-1988 Gareth Stedman Jones; Index