As politicians worldwide scramble to appeal to working people, this city in northern England has a claim to be the birthplace of the very concept of the working class.

Manchester was the world's first modern industrial city, and its urban working class — and the abysmal conditions they were living in — inspired the theories of German philosophers Friedrich ...

MANCHESTER, England — In the center of this industrial city in northern England, a memorial commemorates protesters killed here at a demonstration for workers' rights in 1819, in what became ...

Engels wrote about the emergence of this group of laborers in his 1845 book, The Condition of the Working Class in England. In it, he describes "the working-men's dwellings of Manchester" as being so ...

The world's first industrial city . Manchester was the world's first modern industrial city, and its urban working class — and the abysmal conditions they were living in — inspired the ...

MANCHESTER, England — In the center of this industrial city in northern England, a memorial commemorates protesters killed here at a demonstration for workers' rights in 1819, in what became ...

As politicians worldwide scramble to appeal to working people, this city in northern England has a claim to be the birthplace of the very concept of the working class. One city prides itself as ...

MANCHESTER, England — In the center of this industrial city in northern England, a memorial commemorates protesters killed here at a demonstration for workers' rights in 1819, in what became ...