domestic happiness to divert

Domestic happiness, at least the way the bourgeois philanthropists imagined it for poor people, was meant to keep these workers invested in their home life and to divert them from the temptations of political resitance and in forms of organization and action. 

- Returning to Reims, Didier Eripon 

Photo: Copenhagen, 2019, Art work: "Le Voyageur de Munich" by Asger Jorn (1958)