The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844: with a Preface written in 1892Engels, Friedrich
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The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844: with a Preface written in 1892
Engels, Friedrich
Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Working class -- Great Britain
Employment of Children,
In Agriculture, 262, 263.
In Factories, 141, _et seq_. 167, 171, _et seq_. 193.
In House Industry, 191, _et seq_.
In Mines, 241, 244, _et seq_.
In the Night, 191, 207.
Employment of Women,
In Agriculture, 263.
In Factories, 141, _et seq_. 160, _et seq_. 175, 192.
In Mines, 241, 242, 248, 249.
In Sewing, 209, _et seq_.
Epidemics, vi., 37, 41, 61, 64, 98, 100, 110, 158.
Factory Acts, x., xi., 17, 134, 151, 168, 116, 176, 188.
Food--Adulteration of, 98.
Insufficiency of, 32, 74, 101, 102, 193, 208.
Quality of, 68, 71, 91, 140, 201.
Free Trade, vii., viii., _et seq_. 183, 234, 268.
Intemperance, 102, 127, 128.
Inventions. 1, 4, _et seq_. 42, 134, _et seq_. 223, 224.
Law--A Bourgeois Institution, 113, 130, 173, 176, 227, 281, 282, 288.
New Poor, 174, 175, 230, 235, 262, _et seq_. 269, 284, _et seq_.
Old Poor, 176, 284, 285.
Of Wages, xi., 77, _et seq_. 219.
Mortality, 100, 101, 104, _et seq_. 143, 150, 243.
Parliament, 17, 96, 111, 214, 228, 251, 283, 287.
Philanthropy, 27, 28, 88, 173, 212, 278.
Police, 132, 221, 225, 226, 281, 282.
Reform Bill, ix., 17, 214, 229, 285.
Reserve Army, 85, 90.
Schools--Day, 110, _et seq_. 173, 200, 207, 250.
Night, 110, 250.
Sunday, 111, 202, 250.
Socialism, vi., vii., xii., 122, 236, _et seq_. 275, 297.
Starvation, 25, 29, 73, 76, 88, 117, 167, 189, 285.
Strikes, ix., xiv., xv., 168, 215, 218, 223, 224, 231, 254, 256, 257.
Suicide, 115, 116.
Surplus Population, 81, _et seq_. 139, 263, 266, 280, 287.
Ten Hours' Bill, vii., 142, 172, 174, _et seq_. 230, 235, 284.
Truck System, vii., viii., 182-3, 185, 252, 253.
Ventilation of Dwellings, 36.
Mines, 249.
Towns, 27, 28, 36, 53, _et seq_. 63, 64, 96, _et seq_.
Workrooms, 155, 156, 158.
Workhouses, 287, _et seq_.
Footnotes.
{7} According to Porter's _Progress of the Nation_, London, 1836, vol.
i., 1838, vol. ii., 1843, vol. iii. (official data), and other sources
chiefly official.
{20} Compare on this point my "Outlines for a Critique of Political
Economy" in the _Deutsch-Franzosische Jahrbucher_.
{23} This applies to the time of sailing vessels. The Thames now is a
dreary collection of ugly steamers.--F. E.
{32} _Times_, Oct. 12th, 1843.
{33} Quoted by Dr. W. P. Alison, F.R.S.E, Fellow and late President of
the Royal College of Physicians, etc. etc. "Observations on the
Management of the Poor in Scotland and its Effects on the Health of Great
Towns." Edinburgh, 1840. The author is a religious Tory, brother of the
historian, Archibald Alison.
{35a} "Report to the Home Secretary from the Poor-Law Commissioners on
an Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Classes in Great
Britain with Appendix." Presented to both Houses of Parliament in July
1842, 3 vols. Folio.
{35b} _The Artisan_, October, 1842.
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