Class conflict structured all of European society until the 1970s

Evidence

Until the 1970s, the main focus of social life was the opposition between employers on one hand and the working class on the other, protagonists in a conflict which structured society as a whole. It is true that there were other social groups apart from those, and furthermore not all workers saw themselves as part of a fundamental social conflict in which their role was to undermine class domination. But industrial society could be analyzed on the basis of this central relationship which constituted the substance of major political discussions, movements of ideas, and social struggles in spheres other than industry. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3149

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Southern European parties reframed class conflict as generational conflict — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 90