Industrialization and the Industrial Revolution in the UK

Workers organizing themselves in this way to improve their conditions is the fundamental driver of political and technological innovation in a capitalist society at least from its quite early stages. Capital just does manage to innovate capitalist innovate in order to compete with each other or just in order to make more profits without workers having pushed them into it. In a certain sense imperialism itself is a response to the fact that workers have organized themselves such that the kinds of super exploitation to which they're subject up to the 1870s just aren't really sustainable in the Metropolitan Corps anymore so you export oppression to these other places where workers are less well organized. That logic is seen as driving all kinds of technological innovation.