Engels, F. (1845, 1987) The condition of the working class in England

Abstract

Friedrich Engels was born in Wuppertal, Germany, where his father owned a factory manufacturing textiles. He travelled to England in1842 to be the Manchester agent for his father’s business. Since his youth he had had a strong interest in philosophy, especially the work of Hegel, and while in England he became interested in the problems of the newly created urban working class produced by the industrial revolution. In 1845 he published The condition of the working class in England which was based not only in his own observations of working conditions but also on secondary sources and official documents.