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The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell, Victor Gollancz Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 1972 ISBN-10: 0-15-676750-3 / 0156767503 ISBN-13: 978-0-15-676750-7 / 9780156767507 In the 1930s George 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. Not one to observe from the sidelines, Orwell shared the experiences of the coal miners, |