Jeremy Seabrook

Jeremy Richard Seabrook (14 November 1939 – 30 November 2024) was an English author and journalist who specialised 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 on 14 November 1939.^[3][4] He was educated at Northampton Grammar School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating with a degree in Modern and Medieval Languages in 1960.^[5] He worked as a teacher and as a social worker, and began writing for the journal New Society in 1963.^[6] 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'Neill.^[6][7] Seabrook died at a care home in London, on 30 November 2024, at the age of 85.^[8][9][4]

Written works (partial list)

• The Unprivileged (1973)
• City Close-Up (1974)
• 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?)^[10]
• Mother and Son (1980)
• 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)
• Victims of Development: Resistance and Alternatives (1993)
• Notes From Another India (1995)
• In the Cities of the South (1996)
• Travels in the Skin Trade (1996)
• Colonies of the Heart (1997)
• Love in a Different Climate: Men who have Sex with Men in India (1999)
• Children of Other Worlds: Exploitation in the Global Market (2001)
• Freedom Unfinished: Fundamentalism and Popular Resistance in Bangladesh Today (2001)
• A World Growing Old (2003)
• Consuming Cultures: Globalization and Local Lives (2004)
• The No-nonsense Guide to Class, Caste and Hierarchy (2005)
• The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty (2007)
• People Without History: India's Muslim Ghettos (2007)
• The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight From Tyranny (2008)
• The Song of the Shirt: Cheap Clothes Across Continents and Centuries (2014)
• Private Worlds: Growing Up Gay in Post-War Britain (2023)

Turkish translations

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