Citizen Erased (Part IV) – Immigration & the Maintenance of Throughput
Industrial cities didn’t just use immigration—they required it. London’s growth depended on a constant inflow of new labor to keep the urban throughput machine running.
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Citizen Erased (Part III) – The Urban Throughput Machine
Industrial cities like 19th-century London didn’t just grow—they were engineered to extract labor, circulate populations, and centralize wealth. The working class wasn’t rising—they were flowing.