# Dr. Andrew Ure — The Condition of the Working Class in England character guide

> Dr. Andrew Ure in The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Ure, Dr. Ure

**First appearance:** 0009-single-branches-of-industry

## Snapshot

A contemporary apologist for the factory system whose confident pronouncements Engels quotes precisely so he can dismantle them.

## Who they are

Ure is the voice of respectable industrial opinion, the man who can look at the same mills Engels describes and pronounce them healthy, orderly, and beneficial. He functions as a foil: his claims about factory conditions are set against the narrator's evidence, and the gap between them is where the book's argument does its work. His importance is not as a person but as a representative of the hypocrisy Engels accuses the bourgeoisie of practicing under the disguise of philanthropy.

## In the story

### [Single Branches of Industry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_condition_of_the_working_class_in_england_se/chapters/single-branches-of-industry)

Quoted extensively as a bourgeois apologist for the factory system, dismissing worker complaints and defending the status quo.

### [Labour Movements](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_condition_of_the_working_class_in_england_se/chapters/labour-movements)

Cited as an example of a bourgeois authority who, despite proving machinery's benefits, expresses wrath against trade unions.

### [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_condition_of_the_working_class_in_england_se/chapters/endnotes)

Cited for his works on the philosophy of manufactures and cotton manufacture.

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