The Condition Of The Working Class

The Condition of the Working Class (1976) by Frederick Engels – Panther Books Edition – Sold by Crappy Old Books

Before there were think-pieces, there was The Condition of the Working Class in England—a blistering, boots-on-the-cobblestones exposé of Victorian industrial misery, written by a 24-year-old with too much insight and not enough chill. In this 1976 Panther Books edition, Engels drags the 1840s kicking and screaming into the fluorescent glare of 20th-century radical thought, charting a world of choking smog, child labour, and landlords with consciences as black as the factory soot.

This isn’t just a historical document—it’s a moral sledgehammer. Engels, in the midst of Manchester’s grinding poverty, delivers a firsthand account of the conditions that shaped modern capitalism and broke countless human bodies in the process. It’s angry, informed, and unflinchingly detailed.

Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, but the righteous indignation still burns hot. Smells faintly of revolution and damp attics.

Crappy Old Books: Dusty. Dog-eared. Dangerous to the status quo.

Barely read, however, someone has managed to find the time to some  notes on the inside front page as well as about 4 or 5 pen marks to note certain important paragraphs. not a lot. I doubt they read the whole book as the spine is virtually still new.

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