Book description
The first half of the 19th Century may well be named "The Bleak Age" or "The Age of Discontent". In this acute study the Hammonds illumine the dark places in the lives and hearts of the working people of that time, and by a brilliant comparison with the conditions of other times bring out the underlying causes of this discontent. This is a book to be read by all who wish to understand the root causes of our social troubles, and so be better able to judge the many remedies that are today (1947) being put forward for the future ordering of this country.
CONTENTS:
I. INTRODUCTORY
II. THE REMEDY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
III. THE NEW PROBLEM
IV. THE REMEDY OF THE NEW WORLD
V. THE STATE OF THE TOWNS
VI. THE LOSS OF PLAYGROUNDS
VII. THE NEW POOR LAW
VIII. RELIGION
IX. EDUCATION
X. THE REVOLT
XI. THE DUEL OF LANDLORD AND MANUFACTURE, 1838-1847
XII. THE BATTLE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH
XIII. THE NEW SPIRIT
XIV. CONCLUSION
