Workers




  • The Underground Sea – Miners and the Miners’ strike

    Oct 06 2023

    This new John Berger book edited by Tom Overton and Matthew Harle brings together for the first time John Berger’s work on mineworkers and the miners’ strikes and has been edited as a set of actions for today. Publication of The Underground Sea marks the 40th anniversary of the 1984-85 Strike, at a time when people are rediscovering the necessity, power and possibilities of collective action. Including transcripts…
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  • A Fortunate Man

    Book 1967
    Books, Collaborations, Doctor, Essays, Jean Mohr, Peasants, Photography, UK, Workers

    A Fortunate Man : the story of a country doctor, first collaboration by John Berger (text) and Jean Mohr (photographs), first publication in 1967.
    Berger’s exploration of what it means to heal. In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man – his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the lin…
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  • TRILOGY Into Their Labours

    Book 1992
    Animals, Books, Countryside, France, Migrants, Novels, Peasants, Quincy, Short Stories, Workers

    Into Their Labours, trilogy by John Berger, first edition in 1992 : Pig Earth (1979), Once in Europa (1986) and Lilac and Flag (1990). A trilogy of novels that traces the journey of the European peasant from the mountains to the metropolis.
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  • Pig Earth

    Book 1979
    Animals, Books, France, Novels, Peasants, Quincy, Short Stories, Workers

    Pig Earth, book of novels by John Berger, first edition in 1979. First volume of his trilogy Into Their Labours (1992).
    Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of sceptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women. This book is an act of reckoning that conveys the precise wealth and weight of a world we are losing.
    « The cow’s legs fold and her body collapses instan…
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  • Once in Europa

    Book 1986
    Animals, Books, France, Novels, Peasants, Quincy, Short Stories, Workers

    Once in Europa, book of novels by John Berger, first edition in 1982. Second volume of his trilogy Into Their Labours (1992).
    A collection of interwoven stories, this is a portrait of two worlds – a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade it – at their moment of collision. The instrument of entrapment is love. Lives are lost and hearts bro…
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  • Lilac and Flag

    Book 1990
    Books, Migrants, Novels, Peasants, Quincy, Workers

    Lilac and Flag, novel by John Berger, first edition in 1990. Third and last volume of his trilogy Into Their Labours (1992).
    In the mythic city of Troy, amidst the shanty-towns, factories, opulent hotels, fading heritages and steadfast dreams, the children and grandchildren of rural peasants pursue meagre livings as best they can. And two young lovers embark upon a passionate journey of love and survival.
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  • Another Way of Telling

    Book 1982
    Books, Collaborations, Essays, Jean Mohr, Peasants, Photography, Workers

    Another Way of Telling, by John Berger (text) and Jean Mohr (photographs), first publication in 1982.
    John Berger and Jean Mohr’s classic investigation into the nature of photography and what makes it so different from other art forms
    The writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr set out to understand the fundamental nature of photography and how it makes its impact. Asking a range of questions – W…
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  • King: A Street Story

    Book 1999
    Books, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Novels, Workers

    King: A Street Story, novel by John Berger, first edition in 1999. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions L’Olivier (1999).
    A furious homage to the homeless and a lyrical meditation on language and experience. You will be led to a place you haven’t been, from where few stories come. You will be led by King, a dog (or is he?) to a wasteland beside the motorway called Saint Valery.
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  • Hold Everything Dear

    Book 2007
    Books, Economy, Essays, Politics, Workers

    Hold Everything Dear, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 2007.
    A powerful meditation on political resistance and the global search for justice. From the ‘War on Terror’ to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far ex…
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  • My Beautiful

    Book 2004
    Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Essays, France, Marc Trivier, Photography, Sculpture, Workers, Yves Berger

    My Beautiful by John Berger (text) and Marc Trivier (photographs), first publication in English and French in 2004.
    The question of beauty is addressed here in the intertwining of photographic and writing approaches. Jean Marquis made portraits of Giacometti in his studio, Marc Trivier photographed Giacometti’s sculptures. John Berger, in the continuation of his reflection and in particular on his distance from…
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JOHN BERGER

Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.

He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.

Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.