The Condition of the Working Class in England Edited with an Introduction by David McLellan. Oxford World's Classics

The Condition of the Working Class in England is the best known work of Engels, and still in many ways the best study of the working class in Victorian England. What Cobbett had done for agricultural poverty in his Rural Rides , Engels did - and more - in this work on the plight of industrial workers in England in the 1840s.