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 No Mean City - Alexander McArthur
 No Mean City - Alexander McArthur ... published 1984-06-22 by Corgi BooksNewest Review: ... the living conditions of the time. Glasgow was a prosperous city, the second city of the Empire, her wealth build largely on ... more ... the tobacco industry. But the slum areas of the city were suffering hard from the effects of the Post World War I recession, and later the Great Depression. Living conditions were shocking; families sharing one room, a toilet being shared within an entire close (the whole tenement block), it wasn't unheard of for a family to rent out a bed to a nightshift worker during the day. Overcrowding was commonplace within the tenements and privacy was unheard of.
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No Mean City - Alexander McArthur: Come and Have a Glas-go If You Think You're Hard Enough.... (904 words)
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No Mean City by Alexander McArthur/H.Kingsley Long No Mean City falls into that very rare category for me; books I have read more than once. It is an utterly engrossing and eye-opening read of the not so distant past, when things were very much different in the city of Glasgow. First published in 1935, it is the story of Johnnie Stark, the "Razor King" of the Glasgow slums. Between the wars, the Gorbals area of Glasgow was an underworld of crime, with gang warfare, a disregard for authority and poverty rife amongst the unfortunate citizens. Johnnie Stark, with his twin-razors tucked inside his waistcoat, and his willingness ... Read the complete review
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