The Road to Wigan Pier

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Recommended by David Heinemeier Hansson, D J Taylor, and 2 others. See all reviews

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A searing account of George Orwell’s experiences of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire, 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, slum housing, mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity. less
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David Heinemeier Hansson It’s amazing how much of the abusive ideology revealed in his account of the miners is still present in today’s gig economy. (Source)

D J Taylor The Road to Wigan Pier is a very transitional book. It shows all the attention to detail and the thought of street-level reportage that distinguishes Down and Out in Paris and London, but it’s moving forward to a political position—the political position—that will underlie what Orwell starts writing in the 1940s, for which we now celebrate him. (Source)

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