The Political Economy of the Street and its Discontents

Beggars and Pedestrians in Mid-Nineteenth-Century London

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12730989
AutoresChristopher Ferguson (0000-0001-7664-3692, Auburn University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen12
Número1
Páginas27-50
Fecha de publicación2015-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCultural and Social History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1478-0038 • E-ISSN: 1478-0046
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2752/147800415x14135484867108
OpenAlexW2469137838
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas15

At mid-century, British journalists and reformers warned that beggars menaced the country's economic and political health, and nowhere more so than in the streets of London. At first glance, the cultural and institutional history of the period yields the impression that British society had ceased to view mendicants as legitimate objects of charity. Yet, an examination of other sources from Victorian London demonstrates that many Britons continued to tolerate, support or even protect beggars. Such actions demonstrate the continued power of appeals to the emotions and older traditions of charity despite the country's transition to an urban-industrial society informed by the doctrines of classical political economy

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