However, the ‘revolutionary conclusions’ within the text were deplored by bourgeois critics - even though they acknowledged the accuracy of Engels’s observations. For many workers, it was the first time they had been aware of the possibility of a working-class movement. Reviews of the text not only commented on Engels’s condemnation of the oppression he had witnessed in British capitalist society, they also referred to the ‘feeling of hope and faith’ (ibid.) Engels conveyed. The book was first published in Germany in June 1845 and ‘in socialist circles it was received with great approval’ (ibid.). On returning to Barmen in the autumn of 1844 Engels wrote to Marx in November of the same year that he was ‘buried up to my neck in newspapers and books from which I am compiling my book on the condition of the English proletarians’ ( CW, Vol. Engels collected his research material for The Condition of the Working Class in England between 18 while working in the family firm of Ermen and Engels.
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