Previous chapters have described some of the appalling living conditions that had existed over the course of many centuries in various European countries, some of which became centres of ‘industrialisation’. The working conditions, especially in factories, were no better. People were made to work long hours, adults were usually expected to work for

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He is concerned with the liberation of man from a kind of work which destroys his individuality, which transforms him into a thing, and which makes him into the slave of things. Just as Kierkegaard was concerned with the salvation of the individual, so Marx was, and his criticism of capitalist society is directed not at its method of distribution... See more