First of all he looks at the hygienic situation of the miners, for many people believe that miners generally do not wash. In the next chapter Orwell takes a look at the social situation of theĪverage miner. ('After half a mile it gets an unbearable agony', 1/2 P 23). Orwell, who is not trained, needed about one hour to get there. Going to the working place in the miners’ jargon, for about half an hour. This means that the miners not only have to work under the hardest conditions, but also have to 'travel', this means And the tunnel is often only three to fourįeet high. Where the coal is dismantled is not just right at the elevator, but often lies some miles away from it. Orwell describes how he went down to see the working conditions underground there.

The work is also very dangerous, the coal-miners often handle dynamite and Where the miners have just a minimum of space. Their working conditions are very bad, for they work underground, where it is very hot, dusty, and In the secondĬhapter he describes the life of the miners. Orwell himself spends a couple of weeks in this house during his researches. Unmarried or very old and also pensioners. Generally, the people who live in this lodging house are Both Mr and Mrs Brooker are already pensioners,Īnd with the rent they get for the rooms, they can afford at least enough to eat. In their house, they have installed a cheap lodging-house and a tiny shop. They belong to the so-called 'wealthy' among the The first part, Orwell describes the Brooker family. In the first part of this book Orwell tries to give the reader a detailed view of the conditions of the poor and unemployed.

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