Jason Ewing                                                                       Condition of the Working-Class in England

September 16, 2013                                                                                                         Case Study

Bibliography

From Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 (London: Swan

            Sonnenschein & Co., 1892), pp. 45, 48-53.

In the writing The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844, author Friedrich Engels used his personal observations and research to write the book.  Engels took notes on what he saw, such as child labor, poor working environments, and overworked laborers. Since Engels was actually working at the factory the source must be credible. Engels opinion on the event is what the majority of the people thought but on the other hand there wasn’t that much the factories could do about the pollution. At that time in history there wasn’t a good way to manage the pollution. He had the same perspective as all the other workers. He produced this book to show how bad the conditions really were while he was working there.  Manchester, England was the hub of industrialization.  People had terrible houses to live in, bad air, and a dangerous work environment. Engels claims that the condition of Manchester and all the factories was almost uninhabitable.  Engels says “it’s far from black enough to convey” how truly bad the conditions were for the people living there.