Sections 1 Having now investigated, somewhat in detail, the conditions under which the English… 2 That a class which lives under the conditions already sketched and is so ill-provided with… 3 Nor is this enough. 4 That the dwellings of the workers in the worst portions of the cities, together with the… 5 This malignant fever is to be found in Manchester; in the worst quarters of the Old Town,… 6 When one remembers under what conditions the working-people live, when one thinks how… 7 Another category of diseases arises directly from the food rather than the dwellings of the… 8 Besides these, there are other influences which enfeeble the health of a great number of… 9 Another source of physical mischief to the working-class lies in the impossibility of… 10 The result of all these influences is a general enfeeblement of the frame in the working-class. 11 First class of Streets. 12 The death-rate is kept so high chiefly by the heavy mortality among young children in the… 13 Apart from the divers diseases which are the necessary consequence of the present neglect… 14 Let us turn from the physical to the mental state of the workers. 15 The Ministry, in its whole enormous budget of 55,000,000 pounds, has only the single… 16 "In Birmingham," 17 This is what the bourgeoisie and the State are doing for the education and improvement of… 18 This, then, is all that the bourgeoisie has done for the education of the proletariat—and… 19 But far more demoralising than his poverty in its influence upon the English working-man is… 20 "Their trade, now in plethoric prosperity, anon extenuated into inanition and 'short time,'… 21 Another source of demoralisation among the workers is their being condemned to work. 22 And when all these conditions have engendered vast demoralisation among the workers, a new… 23 "It is in the great cities that vice has spread her temptations, and pleasure her… 24 And elsewhere: "When the higher orders for their own profit have drawn the labouring-… 25 As an individual bourgeois, placed under conditions which he had not himself created, he… 26 In view of all this, it is not surprising that the working-class has gradually become a race… 27 In other ways, too, the humanity of the workers is constantly manifesting itself pleasantly. 28 All this, together with the correspondent public action of the workers, with which we shall… 29 On Saturday evenings, especially when wages are paid and work stops somewhat earlier than… 30 The failings of the workers in general may be traced to an unbridled thirst for pleasure, to… 31 The contempt for the existing social order is most conspicuous in its extreme form—that of… 32 These facts are certainly more than sufficient to bring any one, even a bourgeois, to pause…
Start Learning What the towns, the competition, and the immigration add up to in flesh: epidemic disease, stunted bodies, adulterated food, ruined family life, drink, and demoralization — Engels's systematic tally, drawn from physicians' testimony and official statistics, of what the industrial order costs the people who work it.
Mortality statistics by class and district Epidemics, scrofula, and deformity Adulterated food and quack remedies Education and moral condition Drink and demoralization as consequences, not causes Crime as incipient rebellion
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