The Condition of the Working Class in EnglandBy: Friedrich Engels Written when Engels was only twenty four, and inspired in particular by his time living among the poor in Manchester, this forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. Engels paints an unforgettable picture of daily life in the new industrial towns, and for miners and agricultural workersdepicting overcrowded housing, abject poverty, child labour, sexual exploitation, dirt