The New Social Classes - For the first ...

Thursday 15 March, 2001

# The New Social Classes - For the first time in nearly 90 years, the government has changed the way it classifies people according to occupation.In the seven class system more emphasis has been placed on employment contract than on traditional divides like manual/non manual or skilled/unskilled ... And the results are likely to show that -relatively speaking we are not all middle class now. A third of the people in the top two classes – a third in the bottom two - the rest spread between the remaining four AND those who have "never worked".
It's worse than I feared - I've gone beyond middle class.
More: Check your class.