The Politics of the Lower Order of England

Serfdom had gone, sertonly gone in england by this point. There'd been a knitting into the fabric of basic political society of people much further down the social order than had hitherto been the case. The politicisation of the lower orders of england has taken place between the 13 eighties and the 14 fifties. And that is a major development. You know, when you see these things happen, let's take the beginning of the twentieth century, more and more people have got the vote,. What do you see? You see the rise of labor movements, of political labor movements. Well, it's a similar sort of process.