A nine-year-old child of a factory operative that has grown up in want, privation, and changing conditions, in cold and damp, with insufficient clothing and unwholesome dwellings, is far from having the working strength of a child brought up under healthier conditions. The result in the most favourable case is a tendency to disease, or some check in development, and consequent less than normal vigour of the constitution. These influences are at work, of course, among the children who survive, but not quite so powerfully as upon those who succumb.
Near Fine.THE GREAT MORTALITY AMONG CHILDREN of the working class, and especially among those of the factory operatives, is proof enough of the unwholesome conditions under which they pass their first years. His observations there greatly influenced his ideal vision of what Europe's economic and social systems should be, in particular, how they should treat working people. Engels was horrified by what he saw in Manchester. It is a scathing criticism of the living conditions of factory workers, a powerful exposé on child labor, and a critique on the amount of power wealthy factory owners had in politics and in the cities. Published before the Communist Manifesto, Engels' treatise on industrialization and the class system in Manchester contains revolutionary ideas. There was an unauthorized edition published in London in 1888 from the New York sheets, this is the first authorized U.K. First published in Germany in 1848, Wischnewetzky translated this work into English in 1887, where it was first published in the U.S. The British Library, "The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 by Friedrich Engels". Translated by Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky. With a preface written by Engels in the year of publication. Full recent red morocco with a gilt border to each board, spine in six compartments with gold lettering and decorations. , vi-xix,, 2-298,, (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Engels, Frederick The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
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