Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Migration; 2. Settlement; 3. Employment; 4. Social Conditions: Poverty, Health and Crime; 5. Catholicism, Protestantism and Sectarianism; 6. Radical and Labour Movements; 7. Nationalism; 8. Unionism; A Note on Primary Sources; Select Bibliography

About the Author

Roger Swift is Director of the Centre for Victorian Studies, Chester College, University of Liverpool.