It is traditionally regarded as the residence of the prosperous Basque industrial bourgeoisie.

It includes affluent neighbourhoods like Neguri and Las Arenas, traditionally the residential areas of the industrial bourgeoisie.

The development of the industrial and financial bourgeoisie during industrialization ended the dominance of landowners.

The mining industry kept its aspirations and the industrial bourgeoisie led to the founding of the School of Mining in 1892 in Linares.

Within the Alliance interests of local petit bourgeoisie and industrial bourgeoisie converged.

It has been suggested that politically the tariff was a reflection of an emerging confluence of interests among the industrial bourgeoisie, big landowners and peasant farmers.

A majority of members of the industrial bourgeoisie of the country supported the Regionalist League, which became the most influential party until about 1925.

The big industrial bourgeoisie supported Louis Napoleon as a means of breaking with the proletariat and the other revolutionary forces.

For although the great mass of its membership was working class, it also embraced an increasing section of the industrial bourgeoisie.

These concessions, however, seemed insufficient to a newly developing Czech commercial and industrial bourgeoisie.