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Loading... The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844)by Friedrich Engels
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   GLArnold | Aug 30, 2020 |  Deborah_Markus | Aug 8, 2015 |  ) carterchristian1 | Feb 15, 2014 | Long, dreary stretches going over the differences between Chartists and Socialists and their respective aims, though this might have been important for the intended German audience. Here's where the Penguin Classics edition could have helped the reader by supplying some background. Exhuberant, youthful writing, that occasionally could have stood being reined in. His opinions on the Irish are unenlightened and cringe worthy. (  ) encephalical | Sep 25, 2013 | A grisly tour of the slums of the factory towns of the Industrial Revolution. Engels, an angry young man, details the blackened suffering of the workers there, their ignorance, poverty, sickness. I recall many similar details from Mike Davis' book on a 'planet of slums', and many things I've seen too. Beggars with severed and gnarled limbs, live wires, poisoned water. The narrow maze-like patch-work buildings. Except they're not in England now - many of the slum factory-workers now are in the 'developing' world. A specter haunts not only Europe. Although one may have criticisms of his solution, and those who have claimed to follow it, it is not left to any level of doubt what was wrong with the old world. A fearsome social document in its own right. ( ) HadriantheBlind | Mar 30, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
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). No library descriptions found. |
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 Google Books — Loading...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)305.5620942Social sciences Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Groups of people Class Lower, alienated, excluded classes Working class History, geographic treatment, biography Europe England and WalesLC ClassificationRatingAverage: (4.07)
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