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Mike Davis, Dead Cities: And Other Tales (New York: The New Press, 2002), 432 pages with black-and-white photographs throughout, hardcover $27.95, paper $16.95.
In The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 Engels described urban society under industrial capital. Increasingly, agricultural production was concentrated into larger operations and small farmers were displaced from the land as the prices of agricultural goods declined, forcing them to migrate to urban centers. In the cities, a shortage of employment opportunities forced laborers to compete with each other, allowing capitalists to suppress wages. Thus, in opposition to Malthus, Engels placed ...