Industrialized society eliminates floating street populations by absorbing people into organized work

Evidence

One of the characteristics of an industrially developed and technologically advanced society is that it tends to keep a rather large proportion of its population tied up in organizationally controlled work and play. The old floating populations, so characteristic of preindustrial and early industrial cities, are, in the modern city, largely eliminated. When enough people are pulled into schools and jobs, and when their few free hours are devoted to home and family or organized recreation, then very little time and very few people are left for hanging about. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 382

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 382
• XREF: connects to: Preindustrial cities harbored large rootless populations that hung about the edges of crowds; Unemployed floating populations fueled preindustrial urban riots; Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 341 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them #qualifies (0.85) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 341