TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tressell,Robert
TI  - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Working class -- Fiction
KW  - England -- Fiction
KW  - Political fiction
KW  - Social classes -- Fiction
KW  - Capitalism -- Fiction
KW  - Socialists -- Fiction
KW  - Working class families -- Fiction
KW  - Labor movement -- Fiction
KW  - Social conflict -- Fiction
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ragged-Trousered_Philanthropists; Release date is 2003-01-01; Iain Tatch; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" by Robert Tressell is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1914. Set in a fictional English town, it follows house painters struggling to survive on poverty wages while their labor generates profit for employers. The title ironically refers to workers who accept their own exploitation. Through debates and the famous "Great Money Trick" demonstration, socialist painter Frank Owen tries to awaken his fellow workers to capitalism's inequities. A scathing critique of Edwardian society, it became a classic of working-class literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3608
ER  -