Wigan Pier revisited : poverty and politics in the eighties
Beatrix Campbell
Bok · Engelsk · 1984
| Utgitt | London : Virago , 1984
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| Omfang | XIII, 234 s., [4] pl. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | In 1937 George Orwell published The Road to Wigan Pier, an account of his famour 'urban ride' among the people and places of the Great Depression. Fifty years later we are living through a second Great Depression, and this time the journey north has been made by a woman - like Orwell a journalist and a socialist, but, unlike him, working class and a feminist. Wigan Pier Revisited is a devastating record of what Beatrix Campbell saw and heard in towns and cities ravaged by poverty and unemployment. She talks to young mothers on the dole, to miners and their families, to school leavers, battered wives, factory workers, redundant workers, discovers what work, home, family, politics and dignity mean for working-class people today. Out of this comes her passionate plea for a genuine socialism, one informed by feminism, drawing its stregth from the grass roots and responding to people's real needs
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| Emner | Poor - History - Great Britain
Working class - History - Great Britain fattigdom arbeiderklassen 1980-tallet Storbritannia |
| ISBN | 0-86068-417-2
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