As Orwell describes in his sociological investigations of the working conditions of coal-miners in England: Watching coal-miners at work, you realize momentarily what different universes different people inhabit Yet it is the absolutely necessary counterpart of our world above For all the arts of peace coal is needed if war breaks out it is needed all the more. On industrialization and modernizationĪn idea that Orwell underscores is how society, on a whole, may achieve remarkable progress from industrialization and modernization, but there's a detrimental consequence which we often turn a blind eye to.įor a country to modernize, thousands and thousands of lower- and middle-class workers are subjected to brutal working conditions. The second half is an essay on his middle-class upbringing, and the English people's political sentiments towards socialism. In the first half of the book, George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier investigates the bleak living conditions among the British working class before World War II.
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