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 and career

Seabrook was born in Northampton. He was educated at Northampton Grammar School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating with a degree in Modern and Medieval Languages in 1960.[3] He worked as a teacher and as a social worker, and began writing for the journal New Society in 1963.[4][5] In addition to contributing articles to newspapers and magazines, Seabrook has also written numerous books and plays for television, radio and theatre, including several collaborations with his old schoolfriend Michael O'Neil.[5][6]

Written works (partial list)
  • The Unprivileged (1973)
  • A Lasting Relationship (1976)
  • What went wrong?: Working People and the Ideals of the Labour Movement (1977) (published in the United States as What went wrong?: Why Hasn’t Having More Made People Happier?)[7]
  • 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)
  • The Myth of the Market: Promises and Illusions (1990)
  • Notes From Another India (1995)
  • In the Cities of the South (1996)
  • Travels in the Skin Trade (1996)
  • Children of Other Worlds: Exploitation in the Global Market (2001)
  • A World Growing Old (2003)
  • The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight From Tyranny (2008)
  • The Song of the Shirt: Cheap Clothes Across Continents and Centuries (2014)

Turkish translations
  • Başka Dünyaların Çocukları: Küresel Piyasada Sömürü, çev: Onur Gayretli, Fol Kitap, 2021.

References
  1. "Jeremy Seabrook | the Guardian".
  2. "Jeremy Seabrook | the Orwell Foundation".
  3. 'Cambridge Tripos Results', Times, 20 June 1960, p. 20.
  4. "Jeremy Seabrook Biography - (1939– ), Life Price, New Society, Guardian, the Unprivileged".
  5. Jeremy Seabrook - About'. jeremyseabrook.net. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  6. Gill, Peter (15 March 2012). 'From an interview with Michael O'Neill and Jeremy Seabrook'. petergill7.co.uk. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  7. Seabrook, Jeremy (19 April 2017). "What I learned about class after my twin brother and I were separated by the 11-plus". New Statesman. Retrieved 19 April 2017.


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