Unemployed floating populations fueled preindustrial urban riots

Evidence

One of the characteristics of an industrially developed and technologically advanced society is that it tends to keep a rather large proportion of its population tied up in organizationally controlled work and play. The old floating populations, so characteristic of preindustrial and early industrial cities, are, in the modern city, largely eliminated. When enough people are pulled into schools and jobs, and when their few free hours are devoted to home and family or organized recreation, then very little time and very few people are left for hanging about. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 382 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Low literacy forced preindustrial cities to make streets the news medium — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 196; Preindustrial cities harbored large rootless populations that hung about the edges of crowds; Industrialized society eliminates floating street populations by absorbing people into organized work — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 382 (+3 more)

Related

• Preindustrial cities harbored large rootless populations that hung about the edges of crowds (similarity 0.95)
• Industrialized society eliminates floating street populations by absorbing people into organized work (similarity 0.89)
• Destitute floating populations supplied manpower for preindustrial urban riots (similarity 0.85)
• Jumbled urban space forced preindustrial dwellers to confront social diversity daily (similarity 0.83)
• Cramped housing pushed preindustrial urbanites into the streets for socializing (similarity 0.79)
• Preindustrial cities were overtly and visibly socially heterogeneous (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Industrialized society eliminates floating street populations by absorbing people into organized work #contradicts (0.70) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 382
• Jumbled urban space forced preindustrial dwellers to confront social diversity daily #expands (0.50)
• Post-war aid dependency and urban poverty breeding riots replaced Soviet alliance #exemplifies (0.40)