The condition of the working class in England /

Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895

The condition of the working class in England / Friedrich Engels ; edited with a foreword by Victor Kiernan. - Middlesex ; New York : Penguin Books, 2005. - 301 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. - Penguin classics .

Includes 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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