English workers gained labor-aristocracy privileges within a world system

Evidence

It would appear that the ideological and social response of the English working classes to the immanent domination by a new social order was not restricted to class-specific or economistic behaviors. The class consciousness of English workers did not strictly adhere to the logic of working-class formation premised on capitalist exploitation and modeled by Marx from the histories of the French and English bourgeoisies. Indeed, the more profound reaction to an industrial capitalist order found among English “producers” in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, largely deterred those political and social consequences of proletarianization that had already become the dogma of English radical thought and expectation in the years immediately following the Great Revolution in France. The development of Anglo-Saxon chauvinism, the earliest form of English nationalism, and the appearance of rather extreme forms of racism among the English working class determined the form and characteristics that English working-class consciousness assumed. The parochialisms of ethnocentrism and race hostility constituted a response that was both a native of and a consequence to the loss of precapitalist social integrations. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 234 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: English employers explained Irish wages through racial hierarchy beliefs.; White labor ratified the color caste that subordinates global majority labor.; The English bourgeoisie extracted moral discipline from working-class cultural goods to forge imperial unity. (+3 more)

Related

• Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation (similarity 0.90)
• English workers’ racialized consciousness gave no objective basis for universal class politics (similarity 0.87)
• Ethnic division between English and Irish workers serves capitalist domination (similarity 0.86)
• English racialism predated ruling class divisions and shaped proletarianization itself (similarity 0.85)
• English workers’ internationalist class identity retreated into nationalism before the 1840s (similarity 0.85)
• English racial order prevented workers from separating class universality from racial particularism (similarity 0.83)
• European racialism originated in intra-European caste ordering, not color (similarity 0.83)
• Irish nationalism shaped English working-class consciousness more than production did (similarity 0.83)
• English racial ideology predated proletarianization rather than being invented to divide workers. (similarity 0.83)
• English racialism predated and shaped the proletarianization of the Irish (similarity 0.83)
• Proletarianization created divisions among workers instead of erasing them (similarity 0.83)
• Supranationalist class identity among English workers retreated before nationalism (similarity 0.83)
• English nationalism displaced international class solidarity among workers after 1850. (similarity 0.82)
• English employers explained Irish wages through racial hierarchy beliefs. (similarity 0.82)
• English workers abandoned supranationalist class identity for protonationalism by the 1830s (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation #expands (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 234