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

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John Berger Jean Mohr

A Seventh Man

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

John Berger, Jean Mohr

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English

Verso
24 September 2010

Society & Social Sciences; Migration, immigration & emigration; Sociology: work & labour

Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers 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 come to grips with what it is to be a migrant worker-the material circumstances and the inner experience-and, 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.

By: John Berger, Jean Mohr
Imprint: Verso
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 277g
ISBN: 9781844676491
ISBN 10: 1844676498
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 24 September 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Berger's 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 and the Man Booker-longlisted From A to X. Jean Mohr's longstanding collaboration with John Berger has produced five books, including A Fortunate Man. Among his other works are After the Last Sky (with Edward Said) and, most recently, Side by Side or Face to Face. He lives in Geneva, Switzerland.

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

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 *