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| A Seventh Man |
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.
