The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
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In the followingmonths these unwilling corner loafers gradually vanished, and thefactories came into activity once more. To what extent want and suffering prevail among these unemployed duringsuch a crisis, I need not describe. The poor-rates are insufficient, vastly insufficient; the philanthropy of the rich is a rain-drop in theocean, lost in the moment of falling, beggary can support but few amongthe crowds. If the small dealers did not sell to the working-people oncredit at such times as lo...ng as possible--paying themselves liberallyafterwards, it must be confessed--and if the working-people did not helpeach other, every crisis would remove a multitude of the surplus throughdeath by starvation. Since, however, the most depressed period is brief, lasting, at worst, but one, two, or two and a half years, most of thememerge from it with their lives after dire privations. But indirectly bydisease, etc. , every crisis finds a multitude of victims, as we shallsee. First, however, let us turn to another cause of abasement to whichthe English worker is exposed, a cause permanently active in forcing thewhole class downwards.
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