The early industrial working class was a minority of laborers

Evidence

At least one implication of recognizing that the industrial working class of the early nineteenth century was a minority class is suggested in Hammond’s concession to J. H. Clapham: “Dr. Clapham is … entitled to point out that in 1831 the building trades employed more heads of families than the cotton industry, and that the cotton workers were greatly outnumbered by the domestic servants. Certain of the calamities or losses that accompanied the Industrial Revolution fell only on part of the working class population, and that not the largest part.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1571

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Comintern orthodoxy narrowed revolutionary class to industrial workers while dismissing colonial masses (similarity 0.82)
• Working-class movements accommodated capitalism while theory idealized a revolutionary proletariat (similarity 0.79)
• Early American industrial labor was overwhelmingly foreign-born (similarity 0.79)
• Marx identified industrial workers as the class certain to destroy capitalism. (similarity 0.79)
• Marxist categories presumed a white American working class. (similarity 0.78)
• Almost no Reconstruction Black leaders proposed empowering the Black laboring class (similarity 0.78)
• Capitalist proletarianization reproduced internal divisions rather than unifying the working class (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Comintern orthodoxy narrowed revolutionary class to industrial workers while dismissing colonial masses #corroborates (0.55) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2217
• Working-class movements accommodated capitalism while theory idealized a revolutionary proletariat #corroborates (0.40)