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A Seventh Man Paperback – Illustrated, October 18, 2010

by John Berger (Author), Jean Mohr (Photographer)
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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.
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“I admire and love John Berger’s books. He writes about what is important, not just interesting—in contemporary English letters, he seems to be peerless; not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world with responsiveness to the imperatives of conscience. He is a wonderful artist and thinker.”
—Susan Sontag

“This book is ever more timely.”
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“His most remarkable book.”
—Economist

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Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, Here Is Where We Meet, the Booker Prize-winning novel G, Hold Everything Dear, the Man Booker–longlisted From A to X, and A Seventh Man.

Jean Mohr‘s longstanding collaboration with John Berger has produced five books, including A Seventh Man and A Fortunate Man. Among his other works are After the Last Sky (with Edward Said) and Side by Side or Face to Face. He lives in Geneva, Switzerland.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Verso; New Edition (October 18, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 248 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1844676498
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1844676491
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.08 x 0.65 x 7.81 inches
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John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels and stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel, A Painter of Our Time, was published in 1958, and since then his books have included the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and he lives in a small village in the French Alps.

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Re: The picture; that could have been me, age 21, right down to the fashionable flower shirt and the sideburns. In 1970 as a young American working to get by in Europe, often counting small change and living on stale rolls and a chunk of salami sauage, I rented a room in a rooming house in Ramstein. You got clean sheets twice a month, you had a sink and a wardrobe, a table with a couple of chairs. My neighbors in similar rooms were all gastarbeiters, mostly Turkish. We had a communal kitchen and what really counted, central heating in each room. The tenants were all well behaved very reticent and the woman who owned the complex let everybody know she had a gun. A huge shower room existed in the basement which I used heavily because outdoor mechanical work meant you could get cold down to your bones. Like in the book, I had to take the physical. Like in the book I traveled on German trains, often standing room only. It's a great book, but I think Berger's constant political filter and his dogmatic Marxism prevented him from seeing what was really going on. Still a very good book and great photographs.
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John J. Falkenstine
5.0 out of 5 stars I lived this life.
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Re: The picture; that could have been me, age 21, right down to the fashionable flower shirt and the sideburns. In 1970 as a young American working to get by in Europe, often counting small change and living on stale rolls and a chunk of salami sauage, I rented a room in a rooming house in Ramstein. You got clean sheets twice a month, you had a sink and a wardrobe, a table with a couple of chairs. My neighbors in similar rooms were all gastarbeiters, mostly Turkish. We had a communal kitchen and what really counted, central heating in each room. The tenants were all well behaved very reticent and the woman who owned the complex let everybody know she had a gun. A huge shower room existed in the basement which I used heavily because outdoor mechanical work meant you could get cold down to your bones. Like in the book, I had to take the physical. Like in the book I traveled on German trains, often standing room only. It's a great book, but I think Berger's constant political filter and his dogmatic Marxism prevented him from seeing what was really going on. Still a very good book and great photographs.
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John J. Falkenstine
5.0 out of 5 stars I lived this life.
Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2019
Re: The picture; that could have been me, age 21, right down to the fashionable flower shirt and the sideburns. In 1970 as a young American working to get by in Europe, often counting small change and living on stale rolls and a chunk of salami sauage, I rented a room in a rooming house in Ramstein. You got clean sheets twice a month, you had a sink and a wardrobe, a table with a couple of chairs. My neighbors in similar rooms were all gastarbeiters, mostly Turkish. We had a communal kitchen and what really counted, central heating in each room. The tenants were all well behaved very reticent and the woman who owned the complex let everybody know she had a gun. A huge shower room existed in the basement which I used heavily because outdoor mechanical work meant you could get cold down to your bones. Like in the book, I had to take the physical. Like in the book I traveled on German trains, often standing room only. It's a great book, but I think Berger's constant political filter and his dogmatic Marxism prevented him from seeing what was really going on. Still a very good book and great photographs.
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W. S. Uemura
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic on migrant labor
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2016
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This book is a comparatively unknown work in Berger’s opus, but it is a classic. Berger also worked with photographer Jean Mohr on the more well-known _A Fortunate Man_ and _Another Way of Telling_. Here he says from the outset that “images and words should be read in their own terms” - that they make their own different statements and narratives. Still they enrich each other to tell of the situations of migrant workers in Europe in the mid-1970s. The analysis and even the photos do not feel dated even though this was before the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. Berger writes to get inside the calculations that the migrant worker has to make in order to take the journey, and to live and work in a foreign land. He describes a very specific situation that is strictly male. There are many works now on gendered aspects of migration, which this book lacks, but it still has important things to say four decades after its first publication. It should make you think every time you look at the architecture of a modern European city or ride the subway to your next destination or buy nearly any industrially-made product - what is the invisible face of the person who actually built these things with their own hands?
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Martin M. Rosenbluth
5.0 out of 5 stars Berger's finest work and the best book on the experience of migrant workers
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2017
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This is by far the best book ever written about the experiences of migrant workers. It was written in 1975 about migrant workers in Europe, but it applies to migrants everywhere and is more relevant now than when it was written. Berger is best know for his books on "how to see" and art, but IMHO this is his best work. His passing today is very sad. RIP - Rest in peace and power.
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Rick Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars John Berger is a master. I first read this ...
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2016
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John Berger is a master. I first read this book years ago but recently revisited it. While some of the facts are a bit dated, his analysis of the immagrant experience is a fresh as when he wrote it.
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everythings fine.
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Book was in excellent condition
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Pramod
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
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Hud
5.0 out of 5 stars Where are you now John Berger, when we need you?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 28, 2017
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A classic rock of a book. We need you more than ever John Berger as this world heads towards a fascist dystopia, where the rules of wealth are rigged to suck the life out of the vast majority of people towards the immoral few. You wrote this in 1975, the need to expose the truth so much higher than the commercial need to sell books, or be famous. You looked at those that we don't want to look at. You told the stories of the invisible, the unheard. The prose is clear, easy, so that pages turn quickly one after the other.

On one of my trips after a conference dinner I walked back to my Dubai hotel at 1am, past hundreds of million-dollar sun seeker yachts, and bumped into 3 poorly-dressed lads, all under 20. I asked them what they were doing, sitting on the bench looking at the yachts. One from Nepal, one from India, one from Philippines. They said they were having a break. I learnt they worked 12 hour shifts with 2 breaks of 30 minutes each, replenishing goods in the huge store behind them. I learnt they left home because they needed to work. I learnt that they had to give up their passports to their "owners". I learnt they had little rights, no voice. Work under horrific rules or be deported. They weren't individual humans, they were replaceable batteries. I started for the first time to smell the whiff of slavery.

So many comfortable lives, ours, built on the brutal exploitation of migrants. If you are interested in reading what it must be like to be a migrant, rather than reading the vindictive abuse of the tabloid press and conservative politicians, then read John Berger and linger on the dark, desolate photographs of Jean Mohr. A book of literary courage.
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Paul
5.0 out of 5 stars Still very relevant to the current migrant crisis
Reviewed in Canada on February 5, 2017
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Essential reading for those interested in migrant workers and capitalism
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 19, 2020
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Wennie
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and thought provoking read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 3, 2012
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A Seventh Man: Berger delves into the experience of the migrant worker, articulated sensitively and poetically. A sober subject, slightly critical of capitalism and its perpetuating condition that sustains wealth but also poverty.
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