British capitalism’s distinctive trajectory shaped how ordinary people contested collectively

Evidence

Sixth, the particular history of Great Britain set off British contention from struggles in other Western countries. British capitalism and the British state both followed distinctive trajectories over the years from the 1750s to the 1830s, and those paths of change strongly affected the ways that ordinary British people acted together on their interests. On the side of capitalism, British landlords and entrepreneurs invested early and heavily in large-scale marketing and relatively concentrated means of production. They thus promoted proletarianization of workers in both agriculture and manufacturing. Their reorganizations of production likewise stimulated rapid shifts from agriculture to manufacturing and services as well as from rural to urban population, which in its turn favored a substitution of relatively long distance, definitive migration for the swarming short-distance movement that had characterized the previous centuries. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 360

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 360
• XREF: connects to: Early British struggles won exceptional rights that later struggles re-purposed toward class and citizenship — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 363; Free-trade agitation united British working and middle classes across class lines — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 444; Germany and England objectified class struggle through different institutional routes — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 307 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• British socialism’s unique history shaped its trade-unionist character #expands (0.85)
• Free-trade agitation united British working and middle classes across class lines #exemplifies (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 444
• Capitalism triumphed by cultivating divisions rather than erasing them within the working class #expands (0.76) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 267
• English agrarian capitalism disciplined church, monarchy, and masses in turn #expands (0.75)
• Germany and England objectified class struggle through different institutional routes #expands (0.74) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 307