The engineers who have work pay six shillings a week to their brother engineers who can find nothing to do; 514,000 textile workers oppose a resolution condemning the employment of children under fifteen.

Women, and plenty to spare, are found to toil under the sweat-shop masters for tenpence a day of fourteen hours.

Alfred Freeman crawls to muddy death because he loses his job.

Ellen Hughes Hunt prefers Regent's Canal to Islington Workhouse.

Frank Cavilla cuts the throats of his wife and children because he cannot find work enough to give them food and shelter.
The unfit and the unneeded! The miserable and despised and forgotten, dying in the social shambles.