Engel's Thoughts on the Industrial Revolution Workers

Engels, Friedrich. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844. London:                    

             Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1892.

Engles believed that the workers during the industrial revolution had terrible conditions. He wrote about the conditions to inform readers on how the working-class was being treated during this time. Friedrich Engels is a trustworthy source. In 1842, two years before he wrote this book, his parents sent him to Manchester in order to make thread with “Ermen and Engels’ Victorian Mill.” He observed the Old Town of Manchester at the time when the living and working conditions were awful. He helped his partner, Marx, write three books on what he had observed. He had no reputation of lying in his writing. Engels wrote this entry at the end of his life, three years before he died. He was reflecting on what he remembers from this time. This document teaches the reader that Friedrich Engels, a philosopher, political theorist, social scientist, and author, thought that the working-class had poor conditions. It was written 48 years after Engels experienced this, so there is not much detail. It is from the perspective of an observing author, not the actual workers. Engels states that the quarters were filthy in the Old Town of Manchester. Also, the shelters that the workers lived in were small and chaotic. Engels believed that the workers were treated unfairly in the industrial revolution.