Cottonopolis (Industrial History of Manchester), Lands End

At the end of the 18^th Century, Manchester became a centre of global commerce as cotton manufacturing moved from Bengal to the north of England.  This Cottonopolis boomed; its populations swelled as warehouses and canals, factories and tenements opened.

The city clothed the world.  Then, when two fiery young Germans saw the human cost of Cottonopolis, their indignation was put to paper, and a call rang out: ‘Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains!”