
Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class
Friedrich Engels'' first major work, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, has long been considered a social, political, and economic classic. The first book of its kind to study the phenomenon of urbanism and the problems of the modern city, Engels'' text contains many of the ideas he was later to develop in collaboration with Karl Marx. In this book, Steven Marcus, author of the...
Friedrich Engels'' first major work, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, has long been considered a social, political, and economic classic. The first book of its kind to study the phenomenon of urbanism and the problems of the modern city, Engels'' text contains many of the ideas he was later to develop in collaboration with Karl Marx. In this book, Steven Marcus, author of the...