Britain’s exceptionally urbanized working class was unique among European nations

Evidence

By 1911, about 78 percent of the British population lived in towns of 3,000 inhabitants and over, as opposed to 35 percent for France, and around 50 percent for Germany. The British urban working class was by far the largest single section of the population, which was one factor that made the British working class unique. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 436

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds into why Labour emerged and why British class politics took a distinct shape compared to France or Germany.