Fiction
Novels written to explore the world of the proletariat, or working class.
- Germinal by Emile Zola, set in a mining community in France
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell, set among a group of men renovating a house in the south of England
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, set in the meat-packing district of Chicago
- The Journey of Simon McKeever by Albert Malz: a retired American living in a care home seeks to hitch-hike to LA to find a cure for his arthritis
- Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood, set during the recession of the 1930s
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Living by Henry Green, about workers in a foundry in Birmingham in the 1920s.
Journalism
- The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
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