AlterNet: Free Market Debunked:

"The 'middle class' is not the natural result of freeing business to do whatever it wants, of 'free and open markets,' or of 'free trade.' The 'middle class' is not a normal result of 'free markets.' Those policies will produce a small but powerful wealthy class, a small 'middle' mercantilist class, and a huge and terrified worker class which have traditionally been called 'serfs.' "