The road to Wigan Pier
by George Orwell
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A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain.
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Social conditions, Socialism, Unemployed, Working class, Labor and laboring classes, Unemployment, Labor, Fiction, Literature, open_syllabus_project, Unemployment, great britain, Great britain, social conditions, Working class, great britain, Unemployed, great britain, Labor movement, Economics, Bergmann, Slums, Soziale Lage, Arbeitslosigkeit, Soziale Situation, Sozialismus, Alltag, Robotnicy, Ubóstwo, Bezrobotni, Klasa robotnicza, Sytuacja społeczna, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Minority Studies, Unemployed--great britain, Working class--great britain, Hd8390 .o7 1958, 331Times
20th century, 1918-1939 r., 1900-1945Showing 10 featured editions. View all 49 editions?
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