Jeremy Seabrook
Jeremy Seabrook (born 1939) is an English author and journalist specialising in social, environmental and development issues.[1] His book The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight from Tyranny was longlisted for the Orwell Prize.[2]
Early life
Seabrook was born in Northampton. He was educated at Northampton Grammar School and Cambridge University. He has worked as a teacher and a social worker.[3]
Written Works (partial list)
- The Unprivileged (1973)
- A Lasting Relationship (1976)
- What went wrong? : Why hasn't having more made people happier? (1978)
- Working Class Childhood (1982)
- Unemployment in the Eighties (1983)
- Idea of Neighbourhood, The (1984)
- Landscapes of Poverty (1985)
- Life and Labour in a Bombay Slum (1987)
- The Race for Riches: Human Cost of Wealth (1988)
- Notes From Another India (1995)
- In the Cities of the South (1996)
- Travels in the Skin Trade (1996)
- The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight From Tyranny (2008)
- The Song of the Shirt: Cheap Clothes Across Continents and Centuries (2014)
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