Working Class
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A Working Class is a social class that ...
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- See: Professional Class, Salary, Manual Labour, Blue-Collar Worker, White-Collar Worker, Pink-Collar Worker, Wage Labour.
References
2019
- (Wikipedia, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/working_class Retrieved:2019-8-21.
- The working class (or labouring class) comprises those engaged in waged or salaried labour, especially in manual-labour occupations and industrial work. Working-class occupations (see also “Designation of workers by collar color") include blue-collar jobs, some white-collar jobs, and most pink-collar jobs. Members of the working class rely for their income exclusively upon their earnings from wage labour; thus, according to the more inclusive definitions, the category can include almost all of the working population of industrialized economies, as well as those employed in the urban areas (cities, towns, villages) of non-industrialized economies or in the rural workforce. In Marxist theory and socialist literature, the term working class is often used interchangeably with the term proletariat and includes all workers who expend both physical and mental labour (salaried knowledge workers and white-collar workers) to produce economic value for the owners of the means of production (the bourgeoisie in Marxist literature).