The bohemia-working-class alliance drove British and Irish pop culture for three decades
Evidence
The formulation of an explanation for the revival and dominance of trade-union consciousness among the English working classes is not a simple task. For one, it must take account of what Thompson terms the “counter-revolution” of the dominant classes that struck such decisive blows to working-class radicalism in 1834,1835, and 1848;37 it must also encompass the historical processes by which industrial forms of production were established in England, including the patterns of labor recruitment from the villages and countryside of England (and the subsequent forms of work discipline established to proletarianize the recruits), and the divisions of labor that characterized the international structure of British capitalism. But perhaps most important to the understanding of the evolution of working-class nationalism in Britain, and more to the issue here, is the role another nationalism—Irish nationalism-played in the formative period of English working-class development and its concomitant construction of English working-class culture. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 241 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Irish nationalism shaped English working-class consciousness more than production did — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 241; Chartism marked the peak of Irish-English working-class cooperation.; Bohemian-working-class alliance powered British and Irish popular culture
Related
- Irish nationalism shaped English working-class consciousness more than production did (similarity 0.94)
- English working-class movements were modeled from Irish organizational methods. (similarity 0.84)
- English employer advantage spawned a revolutionary confluence of English and Irish radicalism. (similarity 0.83)
- Chartism marked the peak of Irish-English working-class cooperation, then collapsed entirely (similarity 0.83)
- Employers’ cultivation of mixed labor ironically created a unified revolutionary moment. (similarity 0.83)
- The Irish-English worker mix briefly made unified revolution possible. (similarity 0.83)
- English nationalism displaced international class solidarity among workers after 1850. (similarity 0.81)
- Chartism was the high-water mark of Irish-English working class solidarity. (similarity 0.81)
- Irish colonial history shaped emigrant workers’ relations with English labor (similarity 0.81)
- English workers’ internationalist class identity retreated into nationalism before the 1840s (similarity 0.81)
- Free-trade agitation united British working and middle classes across class lines (similarity 0.80)
- English workers gained labor-aristocracy privileges within a world system (similarity 0.80)
- British socialism’s unique history shaped its trade-unionist character (similarity 0.79)
- Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation (similarity 0.79)
- English racialism predated and shaped the proletarianization of the Irish (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Irish nationalism shaped English working-class consciousness more than production did
#corroborates(0.82) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 241 - Chartism marked the peak of Irish-English working-class cooperation.
#qualifies(0.78)