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The Road to Wigan Pier

by George Orwell

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ISBN13: 9780156767507
ISBN10: 0156767503
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In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate the employed as well-”to see the most typical section of the English working class.” Foreword by Victor Gollancz.

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ISBN:: 9780156767507
Other:: Orwell, George
Publisher:: Mariner Books
Author:: Orwell, George
Location:: San Diego :
Subject:: General
Subject:: Great britain
Subject:: Essays
Subject:: Minority Studies
Subject:: Communism & Socialism
Subject:: Social conditions
Subject:: Labor and laboring classes
Subject:: Unemployment
Subject:: Socialism
Subject:: Working class
Subject:: Minority Studies - General
Subject:: Europe - Great Britain - General
Subject:: Poverty
Subject:: Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism
Subject:: Great Britain Social conditions.
Copyright:: 1958
Edition Number:: 1st American ed.
Edition Description:: American
Series Volume:: 184
Publication Date:: October 1972
Binding:: Paperback
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: 264
Dimensions:: 7.97x5.34x.64 in. .60 lbs.

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