To historians of the left the new popular culture represented a fatal and quite decisive fragmentation of what should have been a working-class consciousness.

There is no real working-class consciousness in popular culture today.

Baltimore in the Third Party System had two-party competitive elections, with powerful bosses, carefully orchestrated political violence, and an emerging working-class consciousness at the polls.

There can be little doubt either that the development of working-class consciousness has been profoundly affected by changes in the class structure.

What helped doom social spending, she argues, was the lack of a working-class consciousness and the hostility of the judiciary.

Furthermore, there was a rapid growth of working-class consciousness.

It is possible to investigate working-class consciousness through those records that survive (admittedly relatively few) and oral testimony.

It was these advances in the productive forces combined with the old social relations of production of capitalism that would generate contradictions, leading to working-class consciousness.

Indeed, artisans with craft skills working in small firms played a leadership role, underrated in Soviet accounts, in developing broader working-class consciousness.

Thompson uses the term "working class" rather than "classes" throughout, to emphasize the growth of a working-class consciousness.