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."
"Wollt ihr nicht in meiner Schmorpfanne gebraten werden, so könnt ihr auch geradezu ins Feuer spazieren"
The Condition of the Working Class in England
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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.
Current Citation
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.