Mass conscription made leaders socially dependent on working classes for war.

Evidence

The sociologist Beverly Silver explains that in the model that prevailed up until the 1970s, the industrialization of warfare, combined with the importance of numbers and the central place of the working classes and the maintenance of mass conscription, put Western leaders in a position of close social dependency in the exercise of military power. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 596

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: State dependence on soldiers’ bodies secured social bargaining power; Substituting capital for soldiers gives the state social autonomy; Protecting national lives in war increases those lives’ social precariousness

Related

• State dependence on soldiers’ bodies secured social bargaining power (similarity 0.88)
• Substituting capital for soldiers gives the state social autonomy (similarity 0.84)
• Capitalized warfare reverses workers’ and citizens’ bargaining power over states. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Protecting national lives in war increases those lives’ social precariousness #expands (0.55)