The European Labour movement declined as manufacturing industries shrank.

Evidence

In 1978 the eminent Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm had presented his landmark analysis of the long-term decline of the European Labour movement, based on the decline in manufacturing industries (and thus of manual work for the traditional working class, who now represented a fast-shrinking percentage of the labor force), in “The Forward March of Labour Halted.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 971

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