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Industrialism
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The industrial towns of the North are ugly because they happen to have been built at a time when modern methods of steel-construction and smoke-abatement were unknown, and when everyone was too busy making money to think about anything else. ...But since the war, industry has tended to shift southward and in doing so has grown almost comely. The typical post-war factory is not a gaunt barrack or an awful chaos of blackness and belching chimneys; it is a glittering white structure of concrete, gl
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― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier
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...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly.
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― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier
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