Wartime expansion created an unskilled workforce ripe for radicalization

Evidence

With the war, then, came the birth of a “new working class” that was widely expanded and unskilled, composed of a large number of peasants, artisans, women, and adolescents. Th is new social component was foreign to the hierarchical dynamics of organized labor, and thus potentially more insubordinate— and prone to radicalization. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 171

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Wartime worker radicalism grew from triple antagonism to state, unions, and war. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 471; Wartime labor dilution broke skilled jobs into stages unskilled workers could handle — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 168; War mechanization broke skilled work into stages manageable by unskilled labor — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 168 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Wartime labor dilution broke skilled jobs into stages unskilled workers could handle #expands (0.95) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 168
• War mechanization broke skilled work into stages manageable by unskilled labor #expands (0.95) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 168
• Boredom and job loss can drive politically inactive people into radicalization #corroborates (0.75) — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 10
• Economic retrenchment produced defensive embourgeoisement rather than further radicalization #contradicts (0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 140