what type of life were the marginal groups of london living in 1870 s .explain
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(i) Most of the marginal groups included unemployed migrants, women and their children.
(ii) Most of them made their living from crime.
(iii) Many of them made their living by stealing lead from roofs, food from shops, lumps of coal, and clothes drying on hedges. There were others who were more skilled at their trade, expert at their jobs. They were the cheats and tricksters, pickpockets and petty thieves crowding the streets of London.
(iv) A large number of women used their homes to increase family income by taking in lodgers or through such activities ns tailoring, washing or matchbox making,
(ii) Most of them made their living from crime.
(iii) Many of them made their living by stealing lead from roofs, food from shops, lumps of coal, and clothes drying on hedges. There were others who were more skilled at their trade, expert at their jobs. They were the cheats and tricksters, pickpockets and petty thieves crowding the streets of London.
(iv) A large number of women used their homes to increase family income by taking in lodgers or through such activities ns tailoring, washing or matchbox making,
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