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Poverty Deserved?: Relieving the Poor in Victorian Liverpool (History and society of Merseyside series)
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Behind the splendour of Victorian Liverpool architecture lay the squalor of the city slums whose inhabitants suffered some of the most shocking conditions of poverty in nineteenth century Britain. This book attempts to capture the substance of the lives of the poor community in Liverpool in the face of such hardship and examines the methods and attitudes of the city's charitable institutions to alleviate poverty by voluntary philanthropic effort.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #385264 in Books
- Published on: 1989-02-01
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 53 pages
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Why were there so many poor in Victorian Liverpool?
The city slums of Victorian Liverpool are all often forgotten against their magnificent backdrop of the thriving port. This book looks at whether the poor people of those areas were there through their own fault or merely a product of misfortune and social setups. Filled with statistical examples of the reality of these peoples existences the author falls infavour of the social setup being responsible.
