Today the working class is not looked on by society as something to aspire to be, but the whole class did not exist largely before the 19th century and was instead a peasant class existed that performed labor for lords of the land.  At the eve of Industrial change throughout Europe, London stood above the other powers.  For all its success and progress, it relied on the growing working class as a backbone, to support all the changes that would follow.

       The working class had massive effects on the economic, political, and social structures of the private and public space. Private companies developed different ways to interact and manage the working class, while the working class actively reacted and changed to new social and economic situations of the day.  Politics changed radically as the working class grew and new legislation and government policy was created to deal with the changes.

       The identity of the working class was a confusion of different peoples mostly minority groups or immigrants but what they all had in common was economic status, which translated into social status. Many in the early 1800’s came from rural homes and rapidly changed city landscapes. With new social structures cultural identities had to change with them.