Pilnmēness nogurdinātie - Pas De Trois of the Chef and the Waiter and the Customer

In the present study, the term ‘middle class’ is understood loosely as those groups who were neither dependent on manual labour nor lived on the interests of their capital. It was a small, emerging but immensely vociferous group which did not fit neatly into any of the four estates (nobility, priesthood, burghers and peasantry). Statistics referred to them as ‘non-noble persons of standing’.
// Tjeder, David, The power of character: Middle-class masculinities, 1800–1900. 320 pp. Department of History, Stockholm University. Stockholm.