Politics and industrial society II: the social question

Abstract

The creation of legitimate national political institutions became one focus for the politics of industrial societies; the relationship between government and economy was a second. However industrialism was defined and evaluated, one of its characteristics which could not be ignored was the very rapid and continuous enlargement of material wealth, and this made the character and control of the economy and the role of government within it an abiding concern of the politics and the theories of industrial societies.