Free-trade agitation united British working and middle classes across class lines

Evidence

Agitation for free trade in the 1830s and 1840s crossed class boundaries and united both working and middle classes; the class-ridden historiography of nineteenth-century social movements, where the working class is part of the “history of socialism,” and the middle class of the “history of liberalism,” has entirely obscured this linkage between the classes. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 444

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the standard binary historiography that separates working-class socialism from middle-class liberalism. — connects to: Funded pensions create cross-class alliances between workers and owners — Natascha van der Zwan, Making Sense of Financialization, 103; English nationalism displaced international class solidarity among workers after 1850. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 265; Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 234 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation #expands (0.82) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 234
• English nationalism displaced international class solidarity among workers after 1850. #qualifies (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 265
• Supranationalist class identity among English workers retreated before nationalism #corroborates (0.80)