The Conditions of the Working Class is the best-known work of Engels, and in many ways still the best study of the working class in Victorian England. It was Engles' first book, written during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844, compiled from his own observations and detailed contemporary reports
Author(s): F. Engels , W. O. Henderson , W. H. Chaloner.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Year: 1968
Language: English
Pages: 419
City: Stanford
Editors' Note..............................................VII
Editors' Introduction.......................................IX
Engels's Preface to the First German Edition of 1845.........3
Dedication 'To the Working Classes of Great-Britain'(1845)...7
I Historical Introduction.................................9
II The Industrial Proletariat............................ 27
III The Great Towns........................................30
IV Competition............................................88
V Irish Immigration.....................................104
VI The Results of Industrialisation......................108
VII The Proletariat.......................................150
VIII The Proletariat {continued)...........................213
IX Working-Class Movements...............................241
X The Miners............................................274
XI The Proletariat on the Land...........................295
XII The Attitude of the Bourgeoisie.......................311
Conclusion.................................................332
. Appendices
I The Postscript of i 846 : An English Strike............357
II Preface to the American Edition of 1887................352
III Preface to the English Edition of 1892.................360
IV List of Sources Quoted by Engels.......................372
V Examples of Engels's Methods of Quoting................375
Index......................................................377
Maps and plans appear on pp. 57, 59, 66, 67, 72.
