Industrialization transferred economic and political power from aristocrats to the bourgeois.

Evidence

Whatever else the Industrial Revolution may have been, and it was certainly many things, it was primarily a shift in the economic base of the social order in which it occurred and a transfer of economic and political power to the new group which controlled that base: the bourgeois. Thus, one of the “things that was happening” in the early industrial city was that the old elites were losing their grip. The old guardians of the appearential order, of the laws and traditions which sustained it, were in decline. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 311

Categorization

• XREF: The decline of the aristocratic guardians of appearance connects directly to Lofland’s core thesis and to Simmel’s analysis of modern urban life as strangers become anonymous. — connects to: Across nineteenth-century Europe the bourgeoisie integrated into aristocratic regimes rather than overturning them — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 183; Enclosing common lands converted capital into a commanding power that subordinated the old aristocracy. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 258; Professional behavioural modification sectors strengthened capital’s power over workers and consumers. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 842 (+1 more)