This book is not only about the tailoring industry and its trade unions; it is about the experience of eastern European immigrants in a trade as old as the Bible and yet as new as the electric sewing
At its most basic, food is vital to our survival there can be no form of life without it. But in economically developed and thriving societies there is more to eating and drinking than just surviving
Some two decades since the publication of London the Promised Land?, which charted and investigated the successes and failures of the migrant experience in London over a period of three hundred years,
Researchers in as anthropology, economics, geography, history, medicine, and nutrition gathered in London in May 2000 for the fourth conference of The Centre for the Study of Migration. Within sectio
"An East End Legacy is a memorial volume for William J. Fishman, whose seminal works on the East End of London in the late nineteenth century have served as a vital starting point for much of the late
This book is a memorial volume for William J Fishman, whose book, East End 1888, was ‘an overall picture of life among the labouring poor of East London in Victorian times’. It was a finely painted po
