BOOK EXTRACT

It is August 1854, and London is a city of scavengers. Just the names alone now read like some kind of exotic zoological catalogue: bonepickers, rag-gatherers, pure-fi nders, dredgermen, mud-larks, sewerhunters, dustmen, night-soil men, bunters, toshers, shoremen. These were the London underclasses, atleast a hundred thousand strong. So immense were their numbers that had the scavengers broken off and formed their own city, it would have been the fifth-largest in all of England.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative