Bootle in the School Board Period: School Supply, Status, and Achievement

Not only in the construction of the docks, but in the carrying on of the work which their existence has created, a large amount of unskilled labour has from time to time been attracted to the Borough, with the consequence that the character of the district has been completely changed, and its people have become strictly urban… The casual nature of the employment…tends to encourage habits of idleness and its concomitants. ¹