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The condition of the working-class in England in 1844 / Friedrich Engels ; [translated by Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky]

Engels, Friedrich [Verfasser] [1820-1895,] ; Wischnewetzky, Florence Kelley

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press

1 Online-Ressource (xix, 298 pages)

Cambridge library collection. British and Irish history, 19th century

Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England.

Originally published in London by Swan Sonnenschein in 1892

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978-0-511-79270-0 ; 978-1-108-02560-7

 

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Frederich Engels (1820–1895) was a German businessman and political theorist renowned as one of the intellectual founders of communism. In 1842 Engels was sent to Manchester to oversee his father's textile business, and he lived in the city until 1844. This volume, first published in German in 1845, contains his classic and highly influential account of working-class life in Manchester at the height of its industrial supremacy. Engels' highly detailed descriptions of urban conditions and contrasts between the different classes in Manchester were informed from both his own observations and his contacts with local labour activists and Chartists. Extensively researched and written with sympathy for the working class, this volume is one Engels' best known works and remains a vivid portrait of contemporary urban England. This volume is reissued from the English edition of 1892, which was translated by noted social activist Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky (1859–1932).