Landscape and labour : work place and the working class in Eliot Hardy and Lawrence In the novels of George Eliot Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence a miniature history of the English working class can be found. They transformed working class culture from a patronizing pastiche into a vital reality. Landscape and Labour offers a sense of direction for contemporary politics by rediscovering the vital force of working class culture The political economy of work and place George Eliot and working morality Thomas Hardy and living landscape D. H. Lawrence and vital connection New land new labour Neoliberalism and a new working class politics.