Charles Booth's survey into London life and labour:
London shampooers, 1896
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Part of the interview with Mr Waugh, Company Secretary of the London & Provincial Turkish Bath Co Ltd, about shampooers at the London Hammam (Page 6 of the notebooks).
A complete transcript of the three interviews can be found here. The Booth Archive is located at The British Library of Political and Economic Sciences at the London School of Economics.
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Shampooers' wages and conditions. Part 4: hours and holidays
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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