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Preface (1892)
Writing forty-eight years on, the aging Engels delivers his own verdict on the book: the worst abuses he described have been reformed or hidden, England's industrial monopoly has ended, and yet — he insists — the cause of the workers' condition remains the capitalist system itself, not its passing cruelties.
Engels's retrospective self-assessmentWhat improved after 1844 and whySurplus value stated in mature formThe end of England's industrial monopolyTrades unions, the 'aristocracy of labour', and the East EndThe revival of socialism in 1892