As free-market capitalism spreads wider and deeper, so does class division.
Wealth accumulates for the wealthy.
Mobility Recent and definitive academic research has revealed that a 'bedrock' of class inequality operates similarly in all industrial societies - and has changed little this century. Supposedly 'open' societies like the former West Germany or the US do not have significantly greater class mobility than 'class-ridden' Britain. The countries of the South now account for 80 per cent of the world's 'working class', its industrial workforce. In the North more people now work in service industries than in factories, though in the world as a whole more people still work in agriculture than in any other single category. The worst of the 53 countries for which this information is available feature in this table.