Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany

Engels's 1845 firsthand study of factory workers in Manchester and other industrial towns, written when he was 24. It documents housing, wages, child labour and disease, and remains a founding work of urban sociology.

Friedrich Engels

Engels's study of how the family, private property and the state arose together, drawing on Lewis Henry Morgan's anthropology. Its account of the world historic defeat of the female sex made it a key text for Marxist feminism.

Friedrich Engels

Engels's history of the German Peasant War of 1525, written right after the defeat of the 1848 revolutions. It reads the uprising led by Thomas Müntzer as a class struggle and contrasts it with the role of Martin Luther.

Friedrich Engels

Engels's eyewitness account of the 1849 uprisings in Baden and the Palatinate, where he fought in August Willich's volunteer corps. It is his most personal piece of military and political reporting.

Friedrich Engels

Articles, letters and notes by Marx and Engels on Ireland, from the Great Famine to the Fenian movement. Includes Engels's unfinished History of Ireland and their argument that English workers could not be free while Ireland was oppressed.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels