The Condition of the Working Class in England

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The Condition of the Working Class in England

Author	Friedrich Engels
Original title	Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England
Translator	Mrs. F. Kelley Wischnewetzky (Florence Kelley)
Country	Germany
Language	German
Genre	Politics, economics, sociology
Publisher	Otto Wigand, Leipzig
Publication date	1845 in German, 1887 in English
Media type	Print (book)
ISBN	1-4069-2036-3
Followed by	The Communist Manifesto

The Condition of the Working Class in England (German: Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England) is an 1845 book by the German philosopher Friedrich Engels, a study of the industrial working class in Victorian England. Engels' first book, it was originally written in German; an English translation was published in 1887. It was written during Engels' 1842–44 stay in Manchester, the city at the heart of the Industrial Revolution, and compiled from Engels' own observations and detailed contemporary reports.

After their second meeting in 1844, Karl Marx read and was profoundly impressed by the book.