Chesterton turns his paradoxes on the rich. These newspaper essays warn that big business is building a world where workers are kept like contented cattle, and they attack wage slavery, the servile state, the press of Fleet Street and liberal politicians who miss the point, opening with a ballad on an Irish village where rioters stopped a drove of cattle.
A lively statement of the ideas that became Distributism, for readers of Chesterton beyond Father Brown. Download the free EPUB.