Excerpt from The Rise of the Working-Class
The industrial revolution consequent upon the invention and adoption of labor-saving machinery has profoundly modified the structure of society. The most important of these social changes are the destruction of the family as the industrial unit and the rise of the working-class. The family which from prehistoric times has been the industrial and political unit is in process of dissolution. The working-class has arisen from the servile condition of the ancient and medieval world to a state of freedom and growing dignity and importance. Having secured the political franchise, this class is becoming supreme in the political affairs of the world.
Living as we do in the midst of these changes, we are not yet aware of their extent, nor have we grasped their full significance.
We are in the control of a revolution more far-reaching in its consequences than any that has occurred since the passage of the higher races of men from barbarism to civilization. Civilization was based on the family as the political and industrial unit and on the servility of the working-class as the economic system.
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