The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844, with a Preface written in 1892

The Condition of the Working Class in England is a book by the German philosopher Friedrich Engels, a study of the industrial working class in Victorian England. Engels argues that the Industrial Revolution made workers worse off. He shows, for example, that in large industrial cities such as Manchester and Liverpool, mortality from disease was four times that in the surrounding countryside, and mortality from convulsions was ten times as high.