The ragged trousered philanthropists
Working class families
Socialists
Social conflict
Labor movement
Fiction, political
Socialism
Capitalism
Social classes
British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Working class
Classic Literature
England, fiction
Social conditions
Fiction
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells 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. A mast…
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