The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844

The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
Author: Frederick Engels
Publisher: BookRix
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2014-02-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 3730964852

The Condition of the Working Class in England is one of the best-known works of Friedrich Engels. Originally written in German as Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England, it is a study of the working class in Victorian England. It was also Engels' first book, written during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844. Manchester was then at the very heart of the Industrial Revolution, and Engels compiled his study from his own observations and detailed contemporary reports. Engels argues that the Industrial Revolution made workers worse off. He shows, for example, that in large industrial cities mortality from disease, as well as death-rates for workers were higher than in the countryside. In cities like Manchester and Liverpool mortality from smallpox, measles, scarlet fever and whooping cough was four times as high as in the surrounding countryside, and mortality from convulsions was ten times as high as in the countryside. The overall death-rate in Manchester and Liverpool was significantly higher than the national average (one in 32.72 and one in 31.90 and even one in 29.90, compared with one in 45 or one in 46). An interesting example shows the increase in the overall death-rates in the industrial town of Carlisle where before the introduction of mills (1779–1787), 4,408 out of 10,000 children died before reaching the age of five, and after their introduction the figure rose to 4,738. Before the introduction of mills, 1,006 out of 10,000 adults died before reaching 39 years old, and after their introduction the death rate rose to 1,261 out of 10,000.

The Life of Catherine Booth

The Life of Catherine Booth
Author: F. de L. Booth Tucker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 526
Release: 1892
Genre: Booth, Catherine (Mumford) "Mrs William Booth," 1829-1890
ISBN:

Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow

Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow
Author: Eliza R. Snow
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 675
Release: 2019-12-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow is a work by Eliza R. Snow. It depicts the journal entries and poems of Lorenzo Snow, a prominent figure in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Letters of John Wesley

Letters of John Wesley
Author: John Wesley
Publisher: London, New York [etc.] Hodder and Stoughton
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1915
Genre: Clergy
ISBN: