Read the following excerpt from The Conditions of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels. What is the point of view expressed in the excerpt?

Manchester lies at the foot of the southern slope of a range of hills...The town itself is perculiary built, so that a person may live in it for years, and go in and out daily without coming into contact with a working-people's quarter ...sharply separated from the sections of the city reserved for the middle-class;...Below it on the river there are several tanneries which fill the whole neiborhood with the stench of animal putrefaction...The first court below Ducie Bridge...was in such a state at the time of the cholera that the sanitary police ordered ordered police ordered it evacuated, swept and disinfected withvchloride of lime.

The newly-built extension of the leads railway, which crosses the Irk here, has swept away some of these courts and lanes ... Passing along a rough bank among stakes and washing-lines, one penetrates into this chaos of small one-storied, one-roomed huts, in most of which there is no artificial floor; kitchen, living and sleeping room all in one. In such a hole, scarcely five feet long by six broad, I found two beds -- and such bedsteads and beds! -- which, with a staircase qnd chimney-place, exactly filled the room... This whole collection of cattle-sheds for human beings was surrounded on two sides by houses and a factory...^5
A. The city of Manchester was designed to make sure both the rich and poor were able to live together.
B. Manchester changed drastically between the 18th and 19th centuries for a variety of reasons.
C. Working people living in Manchester during the late 19th century were forced to live in terrible conditions.
D. The middle-class in Manchester were given special privileges not available to any other social class.