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, loc. 436