HIMMELFARB, GERTRUDE. "Engels in Manchester: Inventing the Proletariat." The American Scholar 52, no. 4. 1983.

Abstract:

Frederick Engels, writing in 1845, described Chartism as only one manifestation of the “social war” that was being waged in England, a war that was bound to issue in a full-scale revolution. And this not in the remote future but within a few years, following the eco- nomic crisis he predicted for 1846-47, or the one after that in 1852-53.

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