Name of the book by Andrew Mearns - The Bitter Cry of Outcast London
According to Andrew Mearns, a clergyman who wrote The Bitter Cry of Outcast London in the 1880s, showed why was more profitable than labouring in small underpaid factories: ‘A child seven years old is easily known to make 10 shillings 6 pence a week from thieving … Before he can gain as much as the young thief [a boy] must make 56 of matchboxes a week, or 1,296 a day.’
