The Foundation Pit
1930 · 224 pages
Workers dig a foundation for the building that will house the whole proletariat, and the pit keeps widening. Platonov's Russian buckles under its own slogans, and the Soviets suppressed the book until 1987.
★ 6.6
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Workers
An Archaeology of the Industrial Age
1993 · 400 pages
Fifty thousand men climb out of a Brazilian gold pit on wooden ladders, caked in mud. Salgado spent six years across twenty-six countries photographing manual labor as the machines took it away.
★ 4.9