Labor Elites
•Groups centering on workers themselves
•Middle-class reformers
•Intellectuals
•Variety of economic, social and political factors influence this choice
•Britain and US labor tended to follow middle-class reformers where European labor tended to follow intellectuals
Labor can follow any of three elite groups which disagree over the nature of society.  This is closely related to the decision to emphasize economic or political actions.

Middle-class reformers – often arise when the economic advances of this class are not matched by its political advances

Intellectuals – often protest at what they see as the inequitable distribution of the burdens and benefits of industrialization