The Condition of the Working Class in England (Oxford World's Classics)

Engels, Friedrich

ISBN 10: 0192836889 / ISBN 13: 9780192836885

Edité par Oxford University Press, 1999

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Synopsis :

The Condition of the Working Class in England is the best known work of Engels, and still in many ways the best study of the working class in Victorian England. What Cobbett had done for agricultural poverty in his Rural Rides, Engels did - and more - in this work on the plight of industrial workers in England in the 1840s.

Biographie de l'auteur: Born in Westphalia in 1820, Friedrich Engels was the son of a textile manufacturer. After military training in Berlin and already a convert to communism, Engels went to Manchester in 1842 to represent the family firm. A relationship with a mill-hand, Mary Bums, and friendship with local Owenites and Chartists helped to inspire his famous early work, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844. Collaboration with Marx began in 1844 and in 1847 he composed the first drafts of the Manifesto. After playing an active part in the German revolutions, Engels returned to work in Manchester until 1870, when he moved to London. He not only helped Marx financially, but reinforced their shared position through his own expositions of the new theory. After Marx’s death, he prepared the unfinished volumes of Capital for publication. He died in London in 1895.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Condition of the Working Class in ...
Éditeur : Oxford University Press
Date d'édition : 1999
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Good