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• Yeast: A Problem, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text)

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• Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016), ed. by Channing Arndt, Andy McKay, and Finn Tarp, contrib. by World Institute for Development Economics Research (PDF with commentary at UNU Press and OUP)

• The Spiral Down to Poverty: Rural Communities in Crisis (ACSJC occasional paper #15; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, 1993), by Noela Lippert (PDF in Australia)

• Rural Development: Putting the Last First (London et al.: Longman, c1983), by Robert Chambers (PDF at Institute of Development Studies)

• Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• Sous la Neige (French translation of "Ethan Frome" serialized in La Revue de Paris, 1912), by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)

• Colonias, A Third World Within Our Borders: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Hunger, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in Eagle Pass, TX, May 15, 1989 (Washington: GPO, 1990), by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Colonias, A Third World Within Our Borders: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Hunger, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in Eagle Pass, TX, May 15, 1989 (Washington: GPO, 1990), by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pro-Poor Land Reform: A Critique (c2007), by Saturnino M. Borras (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• Spatial Analysis for Regional Development: A Case Study in the Bicol River Basin of the Philippines (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, c1980), by Dennis A. Rondinelli (HTML at UNU)

• The Poor in England, 1700-1850: An Economy of Makeshifts (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), ed. by Steven King and Alannah Tomkins (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)

• Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)

• The Great Army of London Poor: Sketches of Life and Character in a Thames-Side District (1882), by Thomas Wright (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Horrible London (from an 1889 edition; see also How the Poor Live), by George R. Sims (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• How the Poor Live (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883; see also Horrible London), by George R. Sims, illust. by Frederick Barnard (illustrated HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict, by Thomas Archer (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Pinch of Poverty: Sufferings and Heroism of the London Poor (London: Isbister and Company, 1892), by Thomas Wright (illustrated HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Ragged London in 1861 (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861), by John Hollingshead (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Wilds of London (London: Chatto and Windus, 1874), by James Greenwood, illust. by Alfred Concanen (illustrated HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• London Shadows: A Glance at the "Homes" of the Thousands (London: George Routledge and Co., 1854), by George Godwin (illustrated HTML and victorianlondon.org)

• The Other Empire: Metropolis, India and Progress in the Colonial Imagination (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), by John Marriott (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• London Shadows: A Glance at the "Homes" of the Thousands (London: George Routledge and Co., 1854), by George Godwin (illustrated HTML and victorianlondon.org)

• Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)

• Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)

• Jill, a Flower Girl (New York: T. Whittaker, 1893), by L. T. Meade, illust. by F. H. Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kadotuksen Kansa: Kuvaus Lontoon East Endistä (The People of the Abyss in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1922), by Jack London, trans. by Kaapo Murros (Gutenberg text)
• London Labour and the London Poor (London: Griffin, Bohn and Co., 1861-1862), by Henry Mayhew
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at Google
  • extra volume: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • extra volume: multiple formats at archive.org
• Low-Life Deeps: An Account of the Strange Fish to be Found There (new edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1881), by James Greenwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The People of the Abyss, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• The Rookeries of London: Past, Present, and Prospective (second edition; London: Thomas Bosworth, 1852), by Thomas Beames (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), by George Orwell (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Great Acceptance: The Life Story of F. N. Charrington (published under "Guy Thorne" pseudonym; 6th edition; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, c1913), by C. Ranger Gull
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Homes of the London Poor, by Octavia Hill (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Ricordi di Londra (with Simonin's Escursione nei Quartieri Poveri di Londra; second edition, in Italian; Milan: Fratelli Treves, 1874), by Edmondo De Amicis and Louis Simonin (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Terrible Sights of London and Labours of Love in the Midst of Them (London: Stanley Rivers and Co., 1870), by Thomas Archer (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Life and Labour of the People in London, First Series: Poverty (4 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1904), ed. by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and Labour of the People in London, Second Series: Industry (5 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), ed. by Charles Booth
  • Volume 1 (Classification of the People, Building Trades, Wood and Metal Workers): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Precious Metals, Watches, Instruments, Paper and Printing Trades, Textiles, and Sundry Manufactures): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Dress, Food, Drink, Dealers, Clerks, Locomotion and Labour): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Public, Professional and Domestic Service; Unoccupied Classes; Inmates of Institutions): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (Comparisons, Survey and Conclusions): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes (some US access only): page images at HathiTrust
• Life and Labour of the People in London, Third Series: Religious Influences (7 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1902), ed. by Charles Booth
  • Volume 1 (London North of the Thames: The Outer Ring): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (London North of the Thames: The Inner Ring): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (The City of London and the West End): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Inner South London): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (South-East and South-West London): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6 (Outer South London): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 7 (Summary): multiple formats at archive.org
• London's Underworld, by Thomas Holmes (Gutenberg text)

• Life in the London Streets (1881), by Richard Rowe (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800 (open access online edition, 2020), by Tim Hitchcock and Robert Brink Shoemaker (Javascript-dependent illustrated HTML at londonlives.org)

• Octavia Hill and the Social Housing Debate: Essays and Letters (c1998), by Octavia Hill, ed. by Robert Whelan (PDF at Civitas)

• Horrible London (from an 1889 edition; see also How the Poor Live), by George R. Sims (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• How the Poor Live (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883; see also Horrible London), by George R. Sims, illust. by Frederick Barnard (illustrated HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• Workhouses and Women's Work: Reprinted from The Church of England Monthly Review; Also, a Paper on the Condition of Workhouses, Read in the Social Economy Department of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at Birmingham, October, 1857 (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858), by Louisa Twining
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• An Abstract From the Account of the Asylum, or, House of Refuge, Situate in the Parish of Lambeth, in the County of Surry: Instituted in the Year 1758, for the Reception of Friendless and Deserted Orphan Girls, the Settlement of Whose Parents Cannot be Found (London: Printed by order of the Guardians, 1799), by Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England) (page images at NIH)

• London Labour and the London Poor (London: Griffin, Bohn and Co., 1861-1862), by Henry Mayhew
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at Google
  • extra volume: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • extra volume: multiple formats at archive.org

• Quicksilver: or, The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Frank Dadd (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Under the Old Roof, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.