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But side by side with these exclusive persons living the
centre-without-margin life, was a growing population of
second-class citizens who were engaged in international trade.
They were the avant-garde of what later became the dominant
middle class:
But urban industry was not everywhere the same. In
many towns, and precisely in those which were the most
developed, there was, side by side with the craftsmen-
entrepreneurs living by the local market, an entirely
different group, which worked for export. Instead of
producing only for the limited clientele of the town and its
environs, these were the purveyors of the wholesale
merchants carrying on international commerce. From
these merchants they received their raw material, for
them they worked, and to them they delivered it in the