Just finished The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell. It is a brilliant description of working class life before WW1.
Frank Owen tries to get his fellow workers to understand they are being terribly exploited but with little success - they are conditioned from birth to kowtow to their "superiors"
Owen to his workmates:
"The only reason they have not monopolized the daylight and the air is that it is not possible to do it. If it were possible to construct huge gasometers and to draw together and compress within them the whole of the atmosphere, it would have been done long ago, and we should have been compelled to work for them in order to get money to buy air to breathe. And if that seemingly impossible thing were accomplished tomorrow, you would see thousands of people dying for want of air - or of the money to buy it - even as now thousands are dying for want of the other necessities of life. You would see people going about gasping for breath, and telling each other that the likes of them could not expect to have air to breathe unless they had the money to pay for it"
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