The ragged trousered philanthropists
Subtitle: by Robert Tressell [pseud.]
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
Published: 1955
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 633
Subjects: Socialists -- Fiction.; Capitalism -- Fiction.; Working class -- Fiction.; Social classes -- Fiction.; Labor movement -- Fiction.; Social conflict -- Fiction.; Working class families -- Fiction.; England -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The story of a group of working men who are joined one day by Owen, a journeyman-prophet with a vision of a just society. Owen's spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system rouse his fellow men from their political quietism.