The condition of the working class in England /
Friedrich Engels ; edited with a foreword by Victor Kiernan.
- Middlesex, Oxford [England] ; New York : Penguin Books, 2005.
- 307 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
- Penguin classics .
- Penguin classics .
Includes index. Translation of: Die Lage der Arbeitenden Klasse in England.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. This polemic paints a picture of daily life in the industrial towns, and for miners and agricultural workers in a savage indictment of the greed of the bourgeoisie.
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