The Condition of the Working Class in England is a 1845 book by the German philosopher
Friedrich Engels, a study of the industrial working class in
Victorian England. Engels' first book, it was originally written in German as
Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England. It was written during his 1842–44 stay in
Manchester, the city at the heart of the
Industrial Revolution, compiled from Engels' own observations and detailed contemporary reports.