Entertainment & the Arts
This form of street entertainment was referred to as the "most wretched of all existence"
Street Clown
This derogatory term was commonly used to describe omnibus conductors.
"Cad"
This group of people make up more than one half of the vagrant population and are often causing mischief throughout London.
Youth vagrants
What class did Mayhew deem as most important and directly valuable?
Enrichers
In the Punch and Judy show, the Punch showmen used this term to refer to the puppets in their show.
“Kerrackters,” which is known as characters.
This omnibus position earned the highest average weekly wage, according to Mayhew. (Non-proprietors)
“Omnibus Drivers”
This historic event caused many Irish vagrants to migrate to London.
The Great Irish Potato Famine
Mayhew uses these two methods to philosophically deal with any subject. One is the method of using knowledge and the other is the mode of acquiring it.
Deductively and Inductively
What are the various eye colours that are associated with the production of human eyes.
Hazel, Black, Blue, and Grey
Cab drivers known as “long-day men” typically worked shifts lasting this many hours.
16-20 Hour Long Shifts
These are the three most popular fictitious names that youth vagrants called themselves.
John Russel, Robert Peel, and Richard Cobden
Mayhew states that society would appear to arrange itself into these four different classes
I. Those that will work II. Those that cannot work III. Those that will not work AND IV. Those that need not work
This man was remembered by Punch performers as the first to bring Punch into the streets of England, making him their real forefather.
Porsini.
These are the 5 types of Cab Drivers
Long-day men, morning men, short-night men, long-night men, Bucks
As part of the criminal punishment of “Transportation,” convicts were sent to this country.
Australia
Mayhew states that these are the four distinct classes of workers.
I. Enrichers II. Auxiliaries III. Benefactors IV. Servitors
This form of street and stage entertainment, mentioned by a street clown in Mayhew's work, involved a comic song and dance and was associated with racial stereotyping.
Jim Crow
Mayhew estimates roughly this many omnibuses were operating across London’s streets
3000 omnibuses
Mayhew calculates this to be the total number of crimes committed of vagrancy throughout the country per year
More than 18 000 per year
What are the three models of obtaining materials for our wealth?
By collecting, By extracting, By producing them