The Ragged Trousered Philantropists

  • New paperback 784 pages
  • Penguin 2004
  • First published in 1914
  • ISBN: 9780141187693

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Robert Tressell’s spirited attack on selfish capitalism is a masterpiece of wit and political passion and one of the most authentic novels of English working class life ever written.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men who are joined one day by Frank Owen, a journeyman-prophet with a vision of a just society. Indicting the ‘philanthropy’ of the working class, who toil solely for the benefit of their masters, and initiating them into the secrets of the ‘Great Money Trick’ which alienates them from their labour, Owen’s attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system rouse his fellow men from their political quietism.

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