![]() The girl can look like a fashion plate at an even lower Little while and at a little distance, looks as though it had been tailored ![]() Two pounds ten on the hire-purchase he can buy himself a suit which, for a Gets a blind-alley job is out of work at twenty, probably for life but for The youth who leaves school at fourteen and Greatest difference of all are the movies and the mass-production of cheap The two things that have probably made the ![]() That in a decade of unparalleled depression, the consumption of all cheap ![]() Luxuries and concentrating on necessities more often it is the other wayĪbout–the more natural way, if you come to think of it. His explanations bear a striking resemblance to the circumstances of the working classes today, as well as offering an explanation for why there is no rebellion!īut they don’t necessarily lower their standards by cutting out What is particularly interesting is despite the decades in time difference, Orwell’s observations still have a ring of truth today. This is an extract from chapter 5 of ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ by George Orwell. ![]()
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