The Condition of the Working Class in England (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Engels, Friedrich

ISBN 10: 0192829556 / ISBN 13: 9780192829559

Published by Oxford University Press, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Condition of the Working Class in England (The ^AWorld's Classics)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192829556
• ISBN 13: 9780192829559
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

This, the first book written by Engels during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844, is the best known and in many ways the best study of the working class in Victorian England. The fluency of his writing, the personal nature of his insights, and his talent for mordant satire combine to make Engels's account of the lives of the victims of early industrial change into a classic.

From the Back Cover

Frederick Engels (1820-1895), the son of a wealthy German textile manufacturer, moved in 1842 to England to take a position in a factory near Manchester partially owned by his father. Engels met Karl Marx in 1844 and began a lifelong association with him. The two are considered to be the founders of modern communism. The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845; English translation 1847) is one of the classic texts of Marxist thought, standing besides such other of Engels' works as Socialism: Utopian and Scientific and The Dialectic of Nature. It is a vitally important political, social and historical document.