The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
by Robert Tressell
Working-class rage before it was trending.
you're working class and have felt the specific indignity of being told to be grateful for your own exploitation
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A working-class epic written by a house painter who’d had enough. Tressell’s novel exposes the quiet dignity and crushing exploitation of laborers in early 20th-century England — and the delusion that keeps them loyal to their masters. Think Les Misérables with paint under its fingernails and revolution in its heart.
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