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• Robāto Ōen yori rōdō naikaku made no Eikoku rōdōshi (Daidō Yōkō Shuppanbu, 1924), by Ken Sawada (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• V Rossii i v Anglii : nabli︠u︡denii︠a︡ i vospominanii︠a︡ peterburgskogo rabochego (1890-1921 g.g.) (Gosudarstvennoe izd-vo, 1987), by A. Fisher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Letters to Our Working Party (New York: E. and J.B. Young and Co., n.d.), by Evelyn Whitaker (PDF and text with commentary at evelynwhitakerlibrary.org)

• Memoirs of a Surrey labourer : a record of the last years of Frederick Bettesworth (Duckworth, 1907), by George Sturt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community: containing among other important particulars, an account of the institution for the education of one thousand poor children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the new system of education on which it is conducted. (Printed and sold by Collins and Perkins, 1807), by Joseph Lancaster (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The manufacturing population of England : its moral, social, and physical conditions, and the changes which have arisen from the use of steam machinery; with an examination of infant labour (Baldwin and Cradock, 1833), by P. Gaskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• First [and second] report [s] of the commissioners for inquiring into the state of large towns and populous districts. (Printed by W. Clowes & sons for H. M. Stationery Off., 1844), by Great Britain. Commissioners for Inquiring into the State of Large Towns and Populous Districts and Walter Francis Montagu-Douglas-Scott Buccleuch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The laboring classes of England : especially those engaged in agriculture and manufactures; in a series of letters (J. Putnam, 1847), by William Dodd and Caroline Sheridan Norton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Commissioners of State of Large Towns and Populous Districts. (Printed by William Clowes and Sons for H.M. Stationery Office, 1844), by Great Britain. Commissioners for Inquiring into the State of Large Towns and Populous Districts (page images at HathiTrust)
• England : a national policy for labour (H. Horsnell & H. Roberts, 1920), by Harry Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some proposals for the imployment of the poor, and for the prevention of idleness and the consequence thereof, begging a practice so dishonourable to the nation, and to the Christian religion : in a letter to a friend / by T.F. (London : Printed by J. Grover, and are to be sold by Francis Smith ..., 1681), by Thomas Firmin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse touching provision for the poor written by Sir Matthew Hale ... (London : Printed by H. Hills for John Leigh ..., 1683), by Matthew Hale (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses in the Commons Hovse of Parliament now assembled, the humble petition of 15000 poore laboring men known by the name of porters, and the lowest members of the citie of London. (London : Printed by R. Oulton and G. Dexter, for John Bull, 1641) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Women's work and wages; a phase of life in an industrial city (T. F. Unwin, 1907), by Edward Cadbury, George Shann, and M. Cécile Matheson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Rustic architecture : picturesque decorations of rural buildings in the use of rough wood, thatch, etc. (James Carpenter, 1842), by T. J. Ricauti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Country cottages: a series of designs for an improved class of dwellings for agricultural labourers. (E. & F.N. Spon, 1860), by John Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notes of a tour in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire; in a series of letters to His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin. (Duncan and Malcolm, 1842), by W. C. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)

• A letter to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Althorp ... in defence of the cotton factories of Lancashire ... (Printed by T. Sowler, 1832), by Holland Hoole (page images at HathiTrust)

• How the casual labourer lives. Report of the Liverpool Joint Research Committee on the domestic condition and expenditure of the families of certain Liverpool labourers. (The Northern Publishng Co., Ltd., 1909), by Liverpool Joint Research Committee and Liverpool Economic and Statistical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Liverpool docks problem (The Northern publishing co., ltd., 1912), by Richard Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Statistics of Vauxhall Ward, Liverpool, shewing the ... condition of more than five thousand families ... (Walmsley, 1842), by Liverpool Anti-Monopoly Association and John Finch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of an inquiry into the conditions of dock labour at the Liverpool docks, by Eleanor F. Rathbone. With tables and diagrams by George H. Wood ... (The Northern Publishing Company, 1904), by Eleanor F. Rathbone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Report of the proceedings at the laying of the foundation stone of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, Shaw Street; and at the Subsequent dinner to his lordship in the Royal Amphitheatre. (Thomas Carter, 1841), by Lord Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Housing: with particular reference to post-war housing schemes. (London County council, 1928), by London County Council. Housing and Public Health Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rates of pay and hours of labour ... (Printed for the London County council, by Southwood, Smith and co., ltd.], 1907), by London County Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• Londres et les ouvriers de Londres (A. Colin, 1913), by D. Pasquet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Expenditure and waste; a study in war-time (C. Bell & Sons, Ltd., 1917), by V. de Vesselitsky and Ratan Tata Foundation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Housing of the working classes in London. Notes on the action taken between the years 1855 and 1912 for the better housing of the working classes in London, with special reference to the action taken by the London County Council between the years 1889 and 1912. (Printed for the London County Council by Odhams Limited, 1913), by London County Council. Housing and Public Health Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The soul market (McClure, Phillips & Company; [etc., etc.], 1907), by Olive Christian Malvery Mackirdy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Octavia Hill as told in her letters, ed. (Macmillan and co., limited, 1913), by Octavia Hill and C. Edmund Maurice (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Toilers in London; or, Inquiries concerning female labour in the metropolis. Being the second part of "Tempted London." (Hodder and Stoughton, 1889), by British Weekly Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work (Harper, 1851), by Henry Mayhew (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• London labour and the London poor; a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. ([G. Newbold], 1851), by Henry Mayhew (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trades for London boys and how to enter them : (Longmans, Green, 1912), by London Apprenticeship and Skilled Employment Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trades for London boys and how to enter them (Longmans, Gren, and co., 1908), by London Apprenticeship and Skilled Employment Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Labour and life of the people. (Williams and Norgate, 1889), by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lack of employment in London. Minutes of the proceedings at a conference, on 13th February and 3rd April, 1903, between representatives of the London County Council and of the administrative authorities in London ... together with a report of the General purposes committee of the London County Council, presented to, and adopted by, the Council on 27th October, 1903, with regard to the recommendations made by the Conference. (Printed for the London County Council by Jas. Truscott and Son, Ltd., 1903), by London County Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• The housing question in London. Being an account of the housing work done by the Metropolitan Board of Works and the London County Council, between the years 1855 and 1900, with a summary of the acts of Parliament under which they have worked. (Printed for the London County Council by J. Truscott, 1900), by London County Council and C. J. Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Housing of the working classes. (Printed by J.H. Broad, 1899), by London Richmond (Richmond upon Thames and W. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• London labour and the London poor; a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work ([G. Woodfall and Son], 1851), by Henry Mayhew, Richard Beeard, and William Tuckniss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and labour of the people in London (Macmillan, 1903), by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• London life in the XVIIIth century (Alfred A. Knopf, 1926), by M. Dorothy George (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and labour of the people in London (Macmillan, 1903), by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Industrial training : with special reference to the conditions prevailing in London (P. S. King & son, 1914), by Norman Burrell Dearle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trades for London boys and how to enter them : (Longmans, Green, 1912), by London Apprenticeship and Skilled Employment Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• Distress in Manchester. Evidence (tabular and other-wise) of the state of the labouring classes in 1840-42. (H. Hooper, 1842), by Joseph Adshead (page images at HathiTrust)
• The moral and physical condition of the working classes employed in the cotton manufacture in Manchester (J. Ridgway, 1832), by James Kay-Shuttleworth (page images at HathiTrust)

• At the works : a study of a manufacturing town (E. Arnold, 1907), by Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• At the works, a study of a manufacturing town (E. Arnold, 1907), by Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Development of the education of wage-earners, with special reference to the education of older boys and girls (H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1917), by Spurley Hey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter to Leonard Horner, Esquire ... in reply to his strictures on the educational test scheme, in the Factory report for June, 1857 (F. Murray and Son, 1857), by George Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)

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