What Friedrich Engels thinks about immigration
German philosopher and social scientist (1820 to 1895); co-author of The Communist Manifesto.
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1 dated position, c. 1845, in their own words. Our reading of what Friedrich Engels has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsSuch occupations are therefore especially overcrowded with Irishmen: hand-weavers, bricklayers, porters, jobbers, and such workers, count hordes of Irishmen among their number, and the pressure of this race has done much to depress wages and lower the working-class.
↗The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 (1845; Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky translation)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book