Today we have reverted to models from prior centuries -- a class of indentured servants who will be freed when they have served their time.
When he was young, his father took a job helping to set up local chapters, and Tillerson eventually became an Eagle Scout, one of an élite class of "servant-leaders" distinguished by obsessive, nerdish attainment.
The military often acted on behalf of a class of elected officials and civil servants.
It is impossible, I think, to underestimate the impact of this sort of thing on a class of people who had grown up taking servants for granted, and whose sense of entitlement and purpose was intimately bound up with their capacity to command.
In his book, "Emerging Africa," Steve Radelet, the former chief economist for the United States Agency for International Development, gives credit to such factors as more democratic governments, a new class of civil servants and businesspeople, and sounder economic policies.
Sadly, the banking and credit card industry was permitted to create a new class of indentured servants out of our working class.
McBride worked for Gordon Brown as a special adviser, a special class of civil servant authorised to engage in party political activity in certain circumstances.
Below them, often as their tenants or debtors, were small entrepreneurs, middlemen in trade (or between local industry and regional trade), master craftsmen, and bankers; and below all and increasingly restive was a swelling class of impoverished artisans, servants, vagabonds, and beggars.
Recruitment in many European countries corresponded to the national educational systems: the highest class of civil servants entered service after graduation from a university, the executive class after full completion of secondary school, the clerical class after the intermediate school examination.
Phun lives in a mansion, with a staff of servants and a car at his disposal, while middle-class Noh rides a motorcycle.
