English working-class movements were modeled from Irish organizational methods.

Evidence

Setting aside for the moment popular prejudices, the English working classes, especially those at the industrial cores of English industry, had more occasion than their superiors to form very different attitudes toward their Irish counterparts. Indeed, in the early nineteenth century, the opportunities for the formation of successful social movements built on Irish and English workers were frequent and seemed promising. Irish labor leaders took prominent roles in working-class agitation in England (in the Chartist movement for example) and it is a widely held belief that working class movements and organizations in England in general were modeled from Irish organizational methods. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 257

Categorization

  • QUESTION: Worth chasing: how exactly did Irish organizational methods transfer into Chartism and beyond?