... doubled. The culture shock for the newly arrived workers was considerable: they were displaced overnight from the small agricultural settings which were all they had ever known to the stark reality of the noisy and dirty industrial environments. Vast numbers of people were unceremoniously thrust together ... brief and entered into for practical ends rather than as a result of any sense of fellow-feeling. Society was marked by unchecked competition rather than communal action, which led to instability, tension and conflict (Giddens, 1989:552). We can say then that these three writers poss...

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