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Contents
1 Who was Robert Tressell?
2 Who was Robert Tressell
3 Emigration and marriage
4 Sad South Africa and the Boer War
5 Mugsborough, England
6 The dignity of labour, as the man said
7 Robert at home
8 Work, boys, work, and be contented
9 Artist and artisan
10 Linguist and model- builder
11 Bread and circuses, 1906
12 The rise of the Labour Movement
13 Robert joins in
14 Democracy Ltd
15 Raw material for a book
16 A new home
17 Work with the local socialists
18 Danger: men at work
19 Political music- hall: the 1908 by- election
20 Recreations
21 The writer
22 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
23 Give us this day
24 A pauper's death
25 Kathleen and the manuscript
26 Publication and reactions
27 1914- 18: the book dies and is born again
28 Editions and abridgements
29 1946: Tressell's handwritten manuscript is found
30 How the original manuscript was butchered
31 The manuscript and the building trades unions
32 Publication in full, foreign editions and translations
33 How the mutilated manuscript was reconstituted
34 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists on stage
35 A dramatic development and a new search
36 The adventures of the manuscript
37 Still alive?
38 1962: a return from the dead
39 Family secrets
40 The painter
41 A grass plot, a jamjar and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
List of authors quoted
Appendix
Index