At least "the old class of exploiters" offered legally enforceable employment for life (a paid servant could sue if dismissed for getting old, and a tenant was

At least "the old class of exploiters" offered legally enforceable employment for life (a paid servant could sue if dismissed for getting old, and a tenant was guaranteed the tenure of his farm at a fixed money rent not indexed to inflation; serfdom, meanwhile, had been abolished in England back in the 1500s). The industrialists didn't do that.