What does it infer and talk about? But if the disciplinarians lost a few legislative skirmishes, they wonthe battle of the Industrial Revolution; and in the process the “Irish” temperament often attributed to the 18th century English poor in town and countryside was translated into the methodical way of life of industrial capitalism. In the countryside this can be seen most clearly in the triumph of the money-economy over the casual, “uneconomic” rhythms of peasant semi-subsistence. In the industrial areas it can be seen in the extension of the discipline of the factory bell or clock from working to leisure hours, from the working-day to the Sabbath, and in the assault upon “Cobbler’s Monday” and traditional holiday and fairs.