Title: Gruva
Photographer(s): Odd Uhrbom
Writer(s): Sara Lidman
Designer(s):
Publisher(s): Aldus/ Bonniers förlag, Stockholm, Sweden
Year: 1970
Print run:
Language(s): Swedish
Pages: 202
Size: 11 x 18,5 cm
Binding: Softcover
Edition: 1st 1968
Print: Typography Bonnier, Stockholm, Sweden
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Sweden, 1968
ISBN: 9789100157791
Sara Lidman has been accused of bias in the debate following the book. Of course. She brought the testimonies of those who feel senselessly exhausted and powerless in the face of corporate authority. She pleaded for those who endure the noise, the gas, the isolation, the incitement, but above all who are deprived of a sense of justice and human dignity.
‘I don't want to complain... But I and so many with me who work diligently... we feel excluded, trapped, frozen, scolded, checked, weighed and fed... in short we feel that time goes by without us entering into a meaningful whole where work might be the most valuable part of everything. It is now seen as something inevitable. The whole of existence could be more human. You could go out for a night just to look at the time and meet a friend on the same errand and you could come back in without looking at your watch and without that punch on your heart... in two hours you'll be at work... in five years you'll be deaf... if time no one recognises you...’
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