Engels PSA

Engels, Friedrich. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1892. ( pp. 45, 48-53).

Friedrich Engels was a respected German social scientist, well-known author and philosopher who visited Manchester during the Industrial Revolution in England. He published a book about his visit to Manchester, commenting on the living conditions of the factory workers at the time. He wrote about how cramped and filthy the living quarters were. During this time, England was changing from a mostly agricultural society to an industrialized one. People moved from the country side to cities looking for jobs in factories. Towns became overcrowded and polluted. The excerpt from Engels's book shows just how terrible the conditions were. He uses words such as "uninhabitable" to describe the places where the workers had to live. He said that words couldn't do the disgusting conditions justice. He only wrote about Manchester and, there is no account of anyother city in his book. Based on Engels's book alone, there is no way of knowing if the conditions extended beyond Manchester. However, by visiting the city himself, his account of the conditions in Manchester were first-hand and dependable.

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