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My father was a house painter – and this is set amongst a group of house painters. I worked with my father for a couple of years while I was finishing my first degree. I’ve never really had a head for heights, and so that made a lot of the job an exercise in terror for me. But one of the things that painting does, that most of the other jobs I’ve done since don’t do, is it allows you to see a job finished. So much work today is task based and all part of an extreme division of labour, such that nothing one does ever really feels like it was you that did it. Painting isn’t like that. Although, oddly enough, it is here in this book, because of the forced cutting of corners the bosses require. A colorful adaptation of a book I probably would never have read otherwise. Don't know how well its polemic force compares to the novel, but neither the story nor the characters were very interesting, and it made for unconvincing proselytizing. Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement. You can read why I came to this decision here.

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Set in the fictitious town of Mugsborough, based on Hastings, where Tressell lived and worked as a sign writer and decorator. Hastings is also our adoptive hometown on the south coast in East Sussex, England. Sadly, our copy of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists disappeared in our moves between Hastings and the USA. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is based on his own experiences of poverty and his terror that he and his daughter whom he was raising alone, would be consigned to the workhouse if he became ill- which he did, Tressel wrote a detailed and scathing analysis of the relationship between working-class people and their employers. The "philanthropists" of the title are the workers who, in his view, acquiesce in their own exploitation in the interests of their bosses. That's for sure, you will know that just by reading the preface: In 2008, an adaptation by Tom Mclennan, was commissioned by the PCS Union as part of its contribution to the 2008 Liverpool Capital of Culture events. It was performed at various venues in Liverpool and later in Hastings at an event organised by the Tressell Society.

Set in Yorkshire in the late 1980s, The Way the Day Breaks is a novel about family, love and mental illness. An adaptation was made by Above the Title Productions for BBC radio in 2008, produced by Rebecca Pinfield and Johnny Vegas, and directed by Dirk Maggs. Three 60-minute episodes were broadcast as the Classic Serial on Radio 4. Actors included Andrew Lincoln (Owen), Johnny Vegas (Easton), Timothy Spall (Crass), Paul Whitehouse (Old Misery), John Prescott (Policeman), Bill Bailey (Rushton), Kevin Eldon (Slyme), and Tony Haygarth (Philpot). This adaptation was nominated for a Sony Radio Drama Award in 2009. [14]

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Their work as hired 'temporary hands' in a painter and decorating firm, is short term and uncertain. Desperately trying to keep themselves and their families out of the workhouse, this vulnerability is fully exploited by their employers. Tressle who worked as a painter and decorator himself, uses his knowledge of this trade, and almost certainly anecdotal experience, to describe their profession, and therefore their 'plight' with a dark realism.In the 1900s the two paths socialism could take were already mapped: revolutionary and parliamentary. The party Tressell joined, the SDF, was revolutionary. We know that path led to the disaster of the Soviet Union. But the reformist path taken in Britain has led, after the successes of the 1945 Labour government, to the watering down and sluicing away of all socialist aspirations by New Labour. Does Tressell say anything to us? Can we compare our world to the Hastings of 1905?

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The story revolves around the plight of working men and how they are perceived by and treated as sub-human commodities by their bosses and the bosses underlings. Tressell (a nom-de-plume for Robert Noonan)was a journeyman painter and decorator and moved from his native Ireland to follow any work he could find. The novel is a distillation of his experiences until he died a pauper in a Liverpool workhouse and was buried in a communal pauper's grave along with twelve other unfortunates. This is a human story, and it is eminently readable, but it also chillingly reveals the schism and vice at the heart of the capitalist so-called civilisation, based on the system of money. What Tressell has demonstrated so entertainingly is nothing less than Karl Marx's labour theory of value, a cornerstone of socialist thinking.Shedding – Anastasia Hiorns’ Abstract Comics Don’t So Much Communicate a Narrative as Provide a Catalyst for One A two-handed version by Neil Gore debuted at the Hertford Theatre in July 2011, its tour including to the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2018, Gore was invited by Dan Carden to perform for MPs in Parliament. [13] Scarlett has always been a prolific drawer, and Sophie has always loved writing stories, so it felt like a natural development for us to work together, and comics was the perfect medium. We ended up collaborating for the first time on our debut graphic novel Mann’s Best Friend in 2017. It’s the quirky story of a man and his unsuitable dog, with some bank fraud thrown in, set in the Pennine landscape of our childhood. Sophie came up with it because Scarlett wanted a story to draw, and once we’d made one book we got the taste for it. A profoundly moving and patriotic book, which should be read by everyone who lives in the UK and professes to care about the country and its people. Written just before WWI, it has become a classic of the socialist movement, and as such is perhaps not so well-known as it should be.

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I won't lie and say that it is all easy reading, there are bits which are tough going but fight through them and you'll realise why this book is now considered a classic. a b Tressell, Robert (1983) [1955]. "Publisher's Foreword". The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. London: Lawrence and Wishart. OCLC 779119068. The acclaimed necromantic horror series reaches its final chapter as the gang war blows wide open on the streets of New Orleans.

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It is very funny book, very sad book and very Union book. The sadness part of this book is that it was published in April 1914 to show paint trade was been treat and by end of year it didn't matter because WWI started and the paint was drying in the poppy fields in blood.

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