A Seventh Man: A Book of Images and Words about the Experience of Migrant Workers in Europe

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Today, more than ever, people are crossing Europe in search of work. They are often protrayed as peasants, or unreliable day labour. But what does the Western world look to migrant laborers Why are they forced to perform the most menial tasks What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation In A Seventh Man, John Berger and Jean Mohr opens up the world of what it is to be a migrant workerthe material circumstances and the inner experienceand, in doing so, reveal how the migrant is not so much on the margins of modern life, but absolutely central to it.

First published in 1975, this finely wrought exploration remains as urgent as ever, presenting a mode of living that pervades the countries of the West and yet is excluded from much of its culture.

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I admire and love John Berger's books. He writes about what is important, not just interesting-in contemporary English letters, he seems to be peerless; not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world with responsiveness to the imperatives of conscience. He is a wonderful artist and thinker. -- Susan Sontag
This book is ever more timely. -- Geoff Dyer
His most remarkable book * Economist *

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Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) was one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing; the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours; Here Is Where We Meet; the Booker Prize-winning novel G; Hold Everything Dear; the Man Booker-longlisted From A to X; and A Seventh Man.