Engels claimed that the work of women resulted in breaking up family ties, apart from many other harmful concomitant effects of female labor. In 1845, investigating the results of new machinery, Engels emphasized the negative consequences such as unemployment and falling wages, often accompanied by an increasing number of children and women in the factories. In contrast to most of his contemporaries, Engels located the fundamental changes of the economy since the eighteenth century in the Industrial Revolution. On the other hand, it evaluates Engels’s claims from today’s position, discussing their validity as well as limits. This paper, on the one hand, explores the sources which Friedrich Engels used for his analysis in the Condition of the Working Class in England, focusing on the role of technology.
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