Friedrich Engels · 1987
A historical study documenting the impoverished living conditions of the industrial working class in nineteenth-century England.
Joel Mokyr notes that it is widely described as the most famous book on the subject, though largely plagiarized from doctors observing those areas.
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“this is sort of widely described and it's fully, you know, the most famous book about that was, of course, Philip Engels' Condition of the Working Class in England, which was largely plagiarized from a whole bunch of doctors living in the Midlands and observing these places.”
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