Affiliation:
1. Graduate Program in Health Policy and Equity York University Toronto Ontario Canada
2. School of Health Policy and Management York University Toronto Ontario Canada
Abstract
AbstractThe Condition of the Working Class in England (hereafter, CWCE) by Friedrich Engels is a masterpiece of urban research not only for its explicit descriptions of the living and working conditions of members of the Victorian‐era working class and their effects on health but also its insights into the sources of these conditions through a political economy analysis. For Engels, the capitalist economic system, with the support of the state apparatus, prematurely sickened and killed men, women and children in its unrestrained pursuit of profits. Our reading of CWCE in 2023 concludes that Engels identified virtually every social determinant of health now found in contemporary discourse with his insights into how their quality and distribution shape health clearly relevant to present‐day Canada. Revisiting CWCE directs our attention to how the same economic and political forces that sickened and killed members of the English working class in 1845 now do so in present‐day Canada. Engels’s insights also suggest means of responding to these forces. We place these findings within Derrida’s concept of spectre and Rainey and Hanson’s concept of trace to show how ideas from the past can inform the present.
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Health Policy,Health (social science)
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