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The National Integration of European Working Classes (1871–1914)

Exploring the Causal Configuration*

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Seven factors that may have contributed to the national integration of the working classes in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia 1871–1914 are explored: the national process of capital accumulation, the international prestige of the nation, the coming of interregional connections, compulsory education, suffrage, the role of the army, and the introduction of social insurance systems. The (provisional) results of this exploration show a clustering of integration-promoting factors in Britain, Germany and France, which is to a certain extent lacking in Italy and Russia.

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* A memorandum addressed to the Grand Duke of Tuscany declared in 1838: “Where there is more education for the masses, the People are better-mannered, they carry out the laws that civil society constitutes and preserves, appreciating their advantages and recognizing the necessity of constraint.” — Quotes from Barbagli, , Educating for Unemployment, pp. 5152.Google Scholar

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