Friedrich Engels published The Condition of the Working Class in England on March 8, 1845.
The book created a controversy with much of the press and caused Bruno Bauer to attempt to refute the book in an article published in Wigand's Vierteljahrsschrift in 1845
 In the book, Engels described the "grim future of capitalism and the industrial age", noting the details of the squalor in which the working people lived

