Jim F. quotes Engles:
>Poles, Italians, Scandinavians, etc. And then the Negroes. >To form a
single party out of these requires quite unusually powerful >incentives.
Often there is a sudden violent 駘an, but the bourgeois >need only wait
passively and the dissimilar elements of the working >class fall apart
again. . ."
And we might as well add poor white Appalachians (including perhaps the most numerous, the Scots Irish of the Alleghenies), many of whom migrated to the cities of the South, East and MW (though many Appalachians are mixed race, caucasian, African, and native American).
The bourgeois/capital were NOT very passive once the IWW got to organizing. A really good cinematic treatment (how rarely can I say that) is John Sayles' 'Matewan'. Should be required viewing in all Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia schools, but showing it would probably get you martyr status.
Charles Jannuzi