Instruction Active
Using Primary Sources
Which detail from this source could a writer use as
evidence to support an argument supporting socialism?
Every great city has one or more slums, where the
working-class is crowded together. ... The streets are
generally unpaved, rough, dirty, filled with vegetable and
animal refuse [trash], without sewers or gutters, but
supplied with foul, stagnant pools instead.
- The Condition of the Working Class in England
in 1844,
Friedrich Engels
O Cities need to improve their roads and sewer
systems.
O Capitalist governments do nothing to help those in
need.
O Many workers live in slums without proper
sanitation systems.
O Poverty has declined in most cities since
industrialization began.