Having read the article, the student says she used census and other data to establish that, instead of the ghettos being 100% poor people, then the next area being 100% middle class etc, around 1 in 10 in the poorest areas may have been “middle class” residents, so doctors etc. and they may have or did share houses with the weavers and other workers.
It does not contradict what Engels wrote, it gives some more detail to fill in his descriptions and it does not take away from the fact that the poorest were treated almost like sub humans during the industrial revolution.
It does point out that, without Manchester, Russia would not exist in its current form because the disgusting conditions described by Engels very much influenced how the industrial revolution played out there.
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Having read the article, the student says she used census and other data to establish that, instead of the ghettos being 100% poor people, then the next area being 100% middle class etc, around 1 in 10 in the poorest areas may have been “middle class” residents, so doctors etc. and they may have or did share houses with the weavers and other workers.
It does not contradict what Engels wrote, it gives some more detail to fill in his descriptions and it does not take away from the fact that the poorest were treated almost like sub humans during the industrial revolution.
It does point out that, without Manchester, Russia would not exist in its current form because the disgusting conditions described by Engels very much influenced how the industrial revolution played out there.
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