The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the English writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions among the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II. The second half is a long essay on his middle-class upbringing, and the development of his po…
In 1936 George orwel'sl was commissioned to visit areas of mass unemployment in the North of England, and The Road to Wigan Pier is a powerful description of the poverty he witnessed there. A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire on the 1940's, the Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic…