Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take… — Friedrich Engels
Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them…"If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying-pan, you can take a walk into the fire."
In the original German
Natürlich, die Weber sind vollkommen frei, der Fabrikant zwingt sie ja nicht, seine Ketten und Karten zu nehmen, aber er sagt ihnen, wie Leach es in gutes Englisch übersetzt: "Wollt ihr nicht in meiner Schmorpfanne gebraten werden, so könnt ihr auch geradezu ins Feuer spazieren"
The Condition of the Working Class in England · 1845
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Engels, Frederick. The Condition of the Working Class in England, translated by Mrs. F. Kelley Wischnewetzy, edited by David McLellan. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 7.
Original citation
Engels, Frederick. Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England [The Condition of the Working Class in England]. Leipzig: Otto Wigand, 1845, ch. 7.
