BOOTH-MAYDICK

The Booth reading "Life and Labour of The People in London" stood out to me before I even read it. It stood out because for three years of my life from when I was three years old to six I lived in London. Obviously this is not speaking about the time period that I lived there but nevertheless it caught my interest. It was interesting to see all of the different percentages of the workers at the time in London and the wages they received. Something that really jumped out at me was that costers and street sellers were the highest in numbers. I would have thought that with the most competition that a lot of these people would move onto different jobs where it was not so crowded and not as much competition. All in all this reading was very amusing not only because of the numbers that are shown but because it shows the numbers of a place that I once lived in my life and did not understand fully because I was so young.