A Seventh Man

First edition (publ. Pelican Books)

A Seventh Man is a book, in the form of photography and text by John Berger and Jean Mohr, on migrant workers in Europe. It was first published in 1975.

In 1972, Berger's novel G., a romantic picaresque set in the Europe of 1898, won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize in 1972. When accepting the Booker award Berger made a point of donating half his cash prize to the Black Panther Party in Britain, and retaining half to support his work on the study of migrant workers that became A Seventh Man, insisting on both as necessary parts of his political struggle.

The book has been cited by South African musician Johnny Clegg as a key influence on his debut album Universal Men.

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Extract from 'A Seventh Man' published in Race & Class, 1975