How long does it take to read The Condition of the Working Class in England?
The Condition of the Working Class in England by Frederick Engels takes about 6 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 34 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1845. 358 pages, about 98,450 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The Condition of the Working Class is the best-known work of Engels, and in many ways still the best study of the working class in Victorian England. It was also Engels's first book, written during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844. Manchester was then at the very heart of the Industrial Revolution and Engels compiled his study from his own observations and detailed contemporary reports. The fluency of his writing, the personal nature of his insights, and his talent for mordant satire combine to make this account of the life of the victims of early industrial change into a classic - a historical study that parallels and complements the fictional works of the time by such writers as Gaskell and Dickens. What Cobbett had done for agricultural poverty in his Rural Rides, Engels did - and more - in this work on the plight of the industrial workers in the England of the early 1840s." "This edition includes the prefaces to the English and American editions, and a map of Manchester c.1845."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Economic conditions, Working class, Labor and laboring classes, Great Britain, History, Economic history
