How Long to Read The Eternal Slum

How Long Does it Take to Read The Eternal Slum?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 50 minutes to read The Eternal Slum by Anthony Wohl

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The problem of how, where, and on what terms to house the urban masses in an industrial society remains unresolved to this day. In nineteenth-century Victorian England, overcrowding was the most obvious characteristic of urban housing and, despite constant agitation, it remained widespread and persistent in London and other great cities such as Manchester, Glasgow, and Liverpool well into the twentieth century. The Eternal Slum is the first full-length examination of working-class housing issues in a British town. The city investigated not only provided the context for the development of a national policy but also, in scale and variety of response, stood in the vanguard of housing reform. The failure of traditional methods of social amelioration in mid-century, the mounting storm of public protest, the efforts of individual philanthropists, and then the gradual formulation and application of new remedies, constituted a major theme: the need for municipal enterprise and state intervention. Meanwhile, the concept of overcrowding, never precisely defined in law but based on middle-class notions of decency and privacy, slowly gave way to the positive idea of adequate living space, with comfort, as much as health or morals, the criterion.Not just dwellings but people were at issue. There is little evidence in this period of the attitude of the worker himself to his housing. Wohl has extensively researched local archives and, in particular, drawn on the vestry reports which have been relatively neglected. Profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs and drawings, this book is the definitive study of the housing reform movement in Victorian and Edwardian London and suggests what it was really like to live under such appalling conditions. This important study will be of interest to social historians, British historians, urban planners, and those interested in how social policies developed in previous eras.

How long is The Eternal Slum?

The Eternal Slum by Anthony Wohl is 530 pages long, and a total of 132,500 words.

This makes it 179% the length of the average book. It also has 162% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Eternal Slum Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 4 minutes to read The Eternal Slum aloud.

What Reading Level is The Eternal Slum?

The Eternal Slum is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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