Evidence: | 'In 1925 Ifan Edwards was driven by unemployment to read Das Kapital in the public library. "It took him about four hundred pages of close print to come to the crux of his argument in the classic illustration of a labourer looking for a job in a factory, and, as he said, expecting nothing but a hiding", Edwards remembered. "This little aside appealed to me very much, as I had had one or two hidings myself".' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 1925 | ||||||||||
Country: | Wales | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | specific address: public library | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Ifan Edwards |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | unemployed |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Wales |
Country of experience: | Wales |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Karl Marx |
Title: | Das Kapital |
Genre: | Social Science, Politics, Economics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ read in library |
Record ID: | 4302 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 307 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 307, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4302, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
See Ifan Edwards, No Gold on My Shovel (London, 1947) pp.173-8 |
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