If the salary of an industrial worker was so low that they barely survived and couldn't even dream of ascending to upper classes, what kept them from revolting all the time? One could argue that there was always a great number of unemployed workers just waiting to substitute employed ones when these went on strike, but how did those unemployed workers survive if they had no income?

If the salary of an industrial worker was so low that they barely survived and couldn't even dream of ascending to upper classes¹, what kept them from revolting all the time? One could argue that there was always a great number of unemployed workers just waiting to substitute employed ones when these went on strike, but how did those unemployed workers survive if they had no income?

¹Mentioned in Hobsbawm's "The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848" and further explained in "The Age of Capital: 1848-1875"

If the salary of an industrial worker was so low that he/she barely survived and couldn't even dream do ascend to upper classes, what kept him/her from revolting all the time? One could argue that there was always a great number of unemployed workers just waiting to substitute employed ones when those entered on a strike, but how did those unemployed workers survive if they had no income?

If the salary of an industrial worker was so low that they barely survived and couldn't even dream of ascending to upper classes, what kept them from revolting all the time? One could argue that there was always a great number of unemployed workers just waiting to substitute employed ones when these went on strike, but how did those unemployed workers survive if they had no income?