So, end product of this is I can imagine a class of wage-slaves, condemed to brutal treatment from their overseers, economic productivity far outstripping humanitarian issues - forced to work long, in awful conditions with no concern for their health nor safety, for little recompense - which immediately has to fly out for rent in overcrowded, overpopulated urban areas, and high-priced imported base foodstuffs.
An emergent new upper class of factory and conglomerate owners, having ousted the landed elite due to the marginalisation of the rural; brutal, single-minded men only concerned with productivity.
And an emergent middle-class of middle-rung overseers, traders and facilitators.
Little art, little culture.
Your common worker would be ruddy-minded, deformed, almost trogladitic.. middle class consisting of flaundering aparractiks and snide, callous merchantmen, and an upper class of determined, socially darwinistic, obstinant and no-more-enlightened than anyone else. (Enough to suitably differentiate them from the cultured and apparently philanthropic nobles of Dementlieu.)