Ben has distilled our piece, renamed London Tide, around the most contemporary elements of Dickens’ passionate and campaigning prose. London appears as the first mega-city, in which there is little trickle down of its enormous wealth, held in a fraction of its elites, and an expanding underclass make a living in a 19th Century gig economy, from manual labour to dolls’ dressmaking and even body retrieval from the river.
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