The Politics of the Poor: The East End of London 1885-1914This book is about the political views of the 'classic' poor of London's East End in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. The residents of this area have been historically characterized as abjectly poor, casually employed, slum dwellers with a poverty induced apathy toward political solutions interspersed with occasional violent displays of support for populist calls for protectionism, imperialism, or anti alien agitation. These factors, in