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Engels, the son of a Rhineland cotton manufacturer, was already a socialist radical when his father posted him to his Manchester business in 1842. His collaboration with Karl Marx was still in the future, but he observed in the structure of industrial society elements of the theory of the class struggle which he and Marx were to announce in the ‘Communist Manifesto’ of 1848, and which Marx was to elaborate in ‘Capital’ (1867–94). He used as evidence ‘Blue Books’ — the collective term for official publications like reports of Royal Commissions, Select Committees, government inspectors’ reports on working conditions — and social studies of individuals like Kay, newspaper reports, and the social criticism of Chartist commentators and writers like Carlyle.
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Further Reading
Henry Pelling, ‘A History of British Trade Unionism’, 1966, chap. 3.
G. Kitson Clark, ‘The Making of Victorian England’, pp. 95–107.
G. M. Young, ‘Victorian England’, pp. 11, 40–2.
Brian Simon, ‘Studies in the History of Education, 1780–1870’, chap. 7.
G. Kitson Clark, ‘The Making of Victorian England’, pp. 173–6.
Henry Pelling, ‘Origins of the Labour Party’, 1954.
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Harvie, C., Martin, G., Scharf, A. (1970). Responses. In: Harvie, C., Martin, G., Scharf, A. (eds) Industrialisation and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86189-7_7
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