Original photography and text by John Berger and Jean Mohr provide a visual and textual exploration of migrant labor
Exposes the material and emotional realities faced by migrant workers in Europe
Remains a pressing and relevant critique of exclusion and marginalization in modern society
Engages readers with a voice and humanity often silenced in political discourse
Summarized by Shop
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