The Condition of the Working Class in England

Name: The Condition of the Working Class in England
Author: Friedrich Engels

by Friedrich Engels

Sociological study documenting industrial working-class poverty and exploitation

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Friedrich Engels

Engels was Marx's closest collaborator and intellectual partner, providing crucial empirical research on industrial capitalism as well as theoretical elaborations of historical materialism. The Condition of the Working Class in England is a foundational document of social history.

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