Discuss The Crown of Wild Olive as a criticism of con-temporary socio-economic life.

Ruskin’s Crown of Wild Olive consists of lectures which were meant for workers, traders and soldiers. Ruskin asks each one of them about the real nature of his calling. He takes up various contemporary social and economic problems and offers his own view-point about their solution. In fact, Ruskin was a social reformer possessing all qualifications of a social reformer. J. A. Hobson, in his study