George Orwell: Road to Wigan Pier (1972, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)
264 pages
English language
Published July 2, 1972 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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.
A fantastic description of the conditions of the British working class accompanied by a political essay about strategy and ideas for an effective socialist movement. Both elements combined produce a decent text which is a delight to read and provides an insight for both individual and collective perspectives on politics and economics.
