Road to Wigan Pier
, by Orwell, George- ISBN: 9780156767507 | 0156767503
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/18/1972
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.