literature

[bundoran]

could anyone describe briefly who were the "ragged trousered philanthropists"

[Fibonacci]

http://en.wikipedia.o...sered_Philanthropists ?

[Zhukov]

painters and house builders

[atalanta]

Workers who were constantly exploited by the bourgeois company owners, to the extent that the workers and their families paid with their under-paid labour for the luxury lifestyles of the company owners by their own increasing poverty.

[LyndaB]

They were painters and decorators who worked for such companies as Smeariton and Leavitt, and Grabbit and Snatchem. I love this book but havent read it in years. The central character is Frank Owen who despairs of ever bettering himself. A must read for all aspiring lefties