A revisit of the working-class communities of Britain fifty years after George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier. Writing as a journalist, socialist and feminist, Campbell documents the impact of poverty and unemployment during the 1980s, speaking with young mothers, miners and their families, school leavers, battered wives, factory workers and the redundant. The book examines work, home, family, politics and dignity, while making a passionate case for a new form of grassroots socialism informed by feminism and the everyday realities of working-class life.