Blackwell UK
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
ISBN: 9780141187693
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
At the building firm Rushton & Co. the bosses and shareholders get richer and richer, while the workmen and their families struggle against poverty, hunger and debt - yet think they can do little to change their lives. Political firebrand Frank Owen, however, is different. He refuses to believe that his masters are his betters and encourages his fellow workers to fight for a new, just society - although convincing them is harder than he thinks.
The first authentic portrayal of working-class lives at the start of the twentieth century, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists has inspired generations of political activists and remains a moving paean to human dignity.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men who are joined one day by Owen, a journeyman-prophet with a vision of a just society. Owen's spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system rouse his fellow men from their political quietism. A masterpiece of wit and political passion and one of the most authentic novels of English working class life ever written.
