National-scale claims replaced local ones as Belgian workers adopted general strikes.
Evidence
As Deneckere says, workers and socialist leaders designed general strikes to be large, standard in form, coordinated across multiple localities, and oriented toward national holders of power. Instead of particular localities and trades, participants commonly represented themselves generally as socialists or as workers at large. Belgian workers began making nationwide program claims for socialism at large, identity claims as coherently connected workers, and standing claims that emphasized their improper exclusion from power. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1210
Categorization
- XREF: Program/identity/standing claims map onto Tilly’s repertoire categories elsewhere; supports hypothesis about how movements shift claims upward in scale under expanding regimes. — connects to: Demonstrations and national general strikes replaced turnouts in Belgian contention. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1206
- QUESTION: Does this show absorption (reforms drew contention into national, institutionalized channels) or channeling? Relevant to whether institutionalization defuses or merely rescaled subordinate politicization.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1210
Broader Connections
- Demonstrations and national general strikes replaced turnouts in Belgian contention.
#expands(0.97) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1206