This article argues that Mayhew'sLondon Labour and the London Poorarticulates a mid-nineteenth-century urban ecology that resonates with the “open” and “unfinished” form of midcentury London and Mayhew'sLondon Labouritself. Mayhew's extensive elaboration of midcentury recycling, repurposing, and reusing practices is put into dialogue with the volumes’ print innovations and, in particular, print recycling practices. Drawing on the passage in which Mayhew describes his ecological vision most compactly—itself recycled from an earlier work—it illustrates how these volumes unite “the ragpicker” and the writer in the production of open and usable forms generative of social change.

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Henry Mayhew，城市生态学家

本文认为梅休伦敦工党和伦敦穷人阐述了 19 世纪中叶的城市生态，与世纪中叶伦敦和梅休的“开放”和“未完成”形式产生了共鸣伦敦工党本身。Mayhew 对世纪中叶回收、再利用和再利用实践的广泛阐述与卷的印刷创新，特别是印刷回收实践进行了对话。借助 Mayhew 最简洁地描述他的生态愿景的一段话——它本身是从早期的作品中回收的——它说明了这些卷如何将“捡破烂的人”和作家联合起来，创造出产生社会变革的开放和可用的形式。