The Road to Wigan Pier
A History, Classics, Sociology book. Twenty million people are underfed but literally everyone in England has access to a radio. What we have lost in...
Although George Orwell grew up in the relative comfort of the English middle class, his socialist convictions and general sense of fairness led him to hate his country's deeply ingrained class structure. That perspective permeates this book, but the most striking elements are the quotidian details of life that Orwell observes in his first-person account of the lives of coal miners and others in the poor north of England. Wigan Pier is almost too realistic at times, as Orwell brings his unparalleled powers of observation to portray the wretched conditions of the working class. That Orwell may have slanted his reporting to make things look worse than they were is a question that does...
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Their job seemed to me so hopeless, so appalling that I wondered how anyone could put up with such a thing when prison was a possible alternative. George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier // Twenty million people are underfed but literally everyone in England has access to a radio. What we have lost in food we have gained in electricity. Whole sections of the working class who have been plundered of all they really need are being compensated, in part, by cheap luxuries which mitigate the surface of life.Do you consider all this desirable? No, I don't. But it may be that the psychological adjustment which the working class are visibly making is the best they could make in the circumstances. They have neither turned revolutionary nor lost... Words are such feeble things. George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier //
One of the best pieces of reportage I have encountered. Orwell discovers the English working class and, with kindness but without sentimentality, he describes what he sees. The Road to Wigan Pier & 1984: A Parallel AnalysisCommissioned fortuitously in the period when Socialism was on the retreat and Fascism on the rise, Orwell must already have begun to glimpse the world which he was to envision with vigorous clarity in 1984. This review is a dual review then, of 1984 and of The Road to Wigan Pier.Written... I first read this a long time ago when I was doing economics A-level at school. My teacher recommended it.At the time I knew nearly nothing about how the world works, least of all about politics, economics and sociology. And of course I found it shocking.A quick note about the book. It's basically in two parts. The first is a study...
