An epic graphic novel adaptation of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is published by SelfMadeHero on 25 September 2020. Available to preorder now.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a book about work and the meaning of life. It is full of metaphor and allegory, and no image demonstrates Tressell’s feelings about the meaning of work more completely than the drawing room at Mr Sweater’s house, which Owen decorates......
Chapter 9 opens with the men bewailing the shoddy, rushed quality of the work they have been forced to do on the house, which is nearly finished. They yearn to work more thoroughly and slowly, both to stave off redundancy and also to allow them......
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a story about a whole community of working class people, not only the waged men. We have written before about the women in the book, and today we’d like to introduce you to the children. Kids suffer the injustices of......
Owen’s practical demonstration of Marx’s theory of surplus economics is possibly the most famous scene in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. It is a powerful moment, told with great humour. It laid bare the ‘trick’ that the capitalist class uses to extort labour from the working......