About B.A. Prole

B.A. Prole started as the pseudonym for the author Bradley Drew. Despite my reluctance in naming myself, I felt compelled too by the contents of The Enclosed.

So much analysis of class conflict and the working class is done by the professional class. The authors, sociogists, professors, and journalist. Those with credentials behind their name, but there is not many works by those of us who live it daily. Respect is given to those who try to improve the conditions of the working class, yet we as the working class need our voices to be heard as well.

A huge inspiration to me has been Robert Noonan who wrote The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropist by hand after his shifts as a house painter and sign writer in 1870. He wrote under the pseudonym of Robert Tressell, to hide his identity from his employers. He wrote 1,600 hand-written pages after his shifts, while raising his daughter alone. As he wrote, his family slid deeper into the poverty of the time, that he canonized in his text. Multiple publishers rejected his manuscript. He died at 40 years old never seeing his manuscript published. It wasn't until his daughter shared the manuscript with her employer, a publishing company, that it was published. Only after being highly redacted. Noonan's daughter received the equivalent of $3,700 for the rights to the work. It has now sold over one million copies and is credited with contributing to multiple labor movements.

If these books do any good, the good belongs to the argument. The argument belongs to the working class.