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The Condition of the Working Class in England

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  1. Preface

    33:56

  2. Introduction

    40:38

  3. Chapter 1. The Industrial Proletariat

    7:22

  4. Chapter 2. The Great Towns, part 1

    33:49

  5. Chapter 2. The Great Towns, part 2

    39:08

  6. Chapter 2. The Great Towns, part 3

    44:31

  7. Chapter 3. Competition

    32:42

  8. Chapter 4. Irish Immigration

    10:16

  9. Chapter 5. Results, part 1

    47:13

  10. Chapter 5. Results, part 2

    47:38

  11. Chapter 6. Single Branches of Industry. Factory Hands, part 1

    39:36

  12. Chapter 6. Single Branches of Industry. Factory Hands, part 2

    44:14

  13. Chapter 6. Single Branches of Industry. Factory Hands, part 3

    39:06

  14. Chapter 7. The Remaining Branches of Industry, part 1

    24:34

  15. Chapter 7. The Remaining Branches of Industry, part 2

    33:30

  16. Chapter 8. Labour Movements, part 1

    36:42

  17. Chapter 8. Labour Movements, part 2

    32:56

  18. Chapter 9. The Mining Proletariat

    43:42

  19. Chapter 10. The Agricultural Proletariat

    34:59

  20. Chapter 11. The Attitude of the Bourgeoisie Towards the Proletariat

    53:55

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Sent by his family to help run a cotton business in Manchester, the young Engels spent his off-hours walking the slums of England's factory towns and writing down what he saw. First published in German in 1845, the result is a street-by-street account of how industrial capitalism housed, fed, and worked the people who ran its mills. He lays out the crowded courts of Manchester and Salford, wages that never kept pace, disease and early death, and argues that this misery was not accident but structure. Written before his partnership with Marx had fully formed, it remains one of the earliest works of social investigation to read an entire class through the conditions of its streets. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available here.

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Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) was a German philosopher, social scientist, and businessman who co-founded Marxist theory with Karl Marx, alongside whom he wrote The Communist Manifesto. Managing his family's cotton firm in Manchester, he funded Marx's work while producing his own sharp studies of industrial capitalism.

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First published
1845
Reading time
About 8 hours
Pages
283
Language
English
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