ABSTRACT
When two hundred thousand workers, artisans and small tradesmen demonstrated against the Sunday Trading Bill in Hyde Park in June, 1855, Marx believed the affair to be no less than 'the beginning of the English revolution'. When Marx arrived in London he was not in the least worried about his immediate monetary prospects. He was convinced that he would soon succeed in putting the Neue Rheinische Zeitung on its feet again in the form of a review. Irregular and uncertain as Marx's income from the New York Tribune was for nearly ten years, it was all he earned. Since the cost of a wet-nurse is prohibitive here, Marx's wife decided, in spite of continual and terrible pains in the breasts and the back, to nurse the child herself. Though Marx gave a great deal of attention to economic events, his own economic work had to give way to the task of trying to earn a living.
