London During The Victorian Era

During the time of the Victorian Era, city life was a mixture of fascinations. interesting concepts and crucial aspects. There were a lot of workers, which was good, but there also many that were impoverished. In result, those in poverty went towards crime and murder. For workers, there many opportunities out there that they could have taken due improving technology, such as the railroad system in England. Another negative aspect of the city itself was that it was a dirty and unsanitary environment.There are many other bits of detail within these three aspects: Different areas of work, other conditions of the city environment, and different categories of crime.

First off, the workers of London during the Victorian Era had different opportunities of labor to choose from, but at the same time it was difficult.(Swisher p.183) During this time, there vast building programs, as railroads across Britain and factory towns grew, doubling in size every ten years.This expansion of railroads depended mainly on unskilled laborers, such as the “navvies” who tunneled through hillsides and laid railroad lines and the miners who dug the coal out of the earth. (Evans p.115) In the 1840s, 200,000 men were building railroads in
London was known to be a dirty, unsanitary living environment. The use of coal-fired stoves made the air thick and heavy with fog. Graveyards apparently existed within the city, and were not kept very well, adding to the city’s health problems. Filth and wastes were disposed of into the streets, or into the Thames River via drainage pipes and sewage.On top of this, the sewers that London currently had did not dispose of the horrible stench, since much of the waste was inefficiently disposed of, and in fact did not leave the city, or again, was dumped back into the Thames, which runs straight through the