Although through child labor, and horrible working conditions the middle class was able to reap the benefits that the working class would never get. I agree fully with this quote from, The Conditions of The English Working Class, by Friedrich Engels, “The only difference between the old-fashioned slavery and the new is that while the former was openly acknowledged the latter is disguised. The worker appeared to be free because he is not bought and sold outright. He is sold piecemeal by the day, the week, or the year. Moreover he is not sold by one owner to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this fashion. He is not the salve of a single individual, but of the whole capitalist class” (163). This is just so true even to this day, we are slaves to the
Although through child labor, and horrible working conditions the middle class was able to reap the benefits that the working class would never get. I agree fully with this quote from, The Conditions of The English Working Class, by Friedrich Engels, “The only difference between the old-fashioned slavery and the new is that while the former was openly acknowledged the latter is disguised. The worker appeared to be free because he is not bought and sold outright. He is sold piecemeal by the day, the week, or the year. Moreover he is not sold by one owner to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this fashion. He is not the salve of a single individual, but of the whole capitalist class” (163). This is just so true even to this day, we are slaves to the