The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 / with a Preface written in 1892
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The Condition of the Working Class is the best-known work of Engels, and in many ways still the best study of the working class in Victorian England. It was also Engels's first book, written during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844. Manchester was then at the very heart of the Industrial Revolution and Engels compiled his study from his own observations and detailed contemporary reports. The fluency of his writing, the personal nature of his insights, and his talent for mordant satire combine to make this account of the life of the victims of early industrial change into a classic - a historical study that parallels and complements the fictional works of the time by such writers as Gaskell and Dickens. What Cobbett had done for agricultural poverty in his Rural Rides, Engels did - and more - in this work on the plight of the industrial workers in the England of the early 1840s. This edition includes the prefaces to the English and American editions, and a map of Manchester c.1845.
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- The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 With a Preface written in 1892
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- THE INDUSTRIAL PROLETARIAT.
- THE GREAT TOWNS.
- COMPETITION.
- IRISH IMMIGRATION.
- RESULTS.
- SINGLE BRANCHES OF INDUSTRY. FACTORY HANDS.
- THE REMAINING BRANCHES OF INDUSTRY.
- LABOUR MOVEMENTS.
- THE MINING PROLETARIAT.
- THE AGRICULTURAL PROLETARIAT.
- THE ATTITUDE OF THE BOURGEOISIE TOWARDS THE PROLETARIAT.
- TRANSLATORS NOTE.
- INDEX
- Footnotes.
- p. v
- p. vi
- p. vii
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