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<span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-References-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle References subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Bibliography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bibliography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Bibliography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bibliography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown 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Available in 60 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-60" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-language-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language-progressive"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">60 languages</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeiterklasse" title="Arbeiterklasse – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Arbeiterklasse" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B7%D8%A8%D9%82%D8%A9_%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A9" title="طبقة عاملة – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="طبقة عاملة" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clas_obrera" title="Clas obrera – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Clas obrera" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0%C5%9F%C3%A7i_t%C9%99b%C9%99q%C9%99" title="İşçi təbəqə – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="İşçi təbəqə" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang-l%C3%A2ng_kai-kip" title="Kang-lâng kai-kip – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Kang-lâng kai-kip" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%87%D1%8B_%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Рабочы клас – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Рабочы клас" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classe_treballadora" title="Classe treballadora – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Classe treballadora" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%C4%95%D1%80%C4%95%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%B2%C3%A7%C4%95%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%C4%95" title="Кĕрĕшевçĕсен класĕ – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Кĕрĕшевçĕсен класĕ" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C4%9Blnick%C3%A1_t%C5%99%C3%ADda" title="Dělnická třída – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Dělnická třída" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dosbarth_gweithiol" title="Dosbarth gweithiol – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Dosbarth gweithiol" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbejderklasse" title="Arbejderklasse – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Arbejderklasse" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeiterklasse" title="Arbeiterklasse – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Arbeiterklasse" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B6%C3%B6lisklass" title="Töölisklass – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Töölisklass" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE_%CF%84%CE%AC%CE%BE%CE%B7" title="Εργατική τάξη – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Εργατική τάξη" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clase_obrera" title="Clase obrera – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Clase obrera" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laborista_klaso" title="Laborista klaso – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Laborista klaso" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langile_klase" title="Langile klase – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Langile klase" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B7%D8%A8%D9%82%D9%87_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B1" title="طبقه کارگر – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="طبقه کارگر" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classe_ouvri%C3%A8re" title="Classe ouvrière – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Classe ouvrière" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucht_oibre" title="Lucht oibre – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Lucht oibre" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clase_traballadora" title="Clase traballadora – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Clase traballadora" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%85%B8%EB%8F%99%EA%B3%84%EA%B8%89" title="노동계급 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="노동계급" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B2%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%BE%D5%B8%D6%80_%D5%A4%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A3" title="Բանվոր դասակարգ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Բանվոր դասակարգ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%97" title="श्रमिक वर्ग – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="श्रमिक वर्ग" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radni%C4%8Dka_klasa" title="Radnička klasa – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Radnička klasa" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buruh" title="Buruh – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Buruh" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classe_lavoratrice" title="Classe lavoratrice – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Classe lavoratrice" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%93_%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9D" title="מעמד הפועלים – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מעמד הפועלים" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buruh" title="Buruh – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Buruh" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D2%B1%D0%BC%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%88%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Жұмысшылар – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Жұмысшылар" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C4%81dnieku_%C5%A1%C4%B7ira" title="Strādnieku šķira – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Strādnieku šķira" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0" title="Работничка класа – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Работничка класа" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%97" title="कामगारवर्ग – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="कामगारवर्ग" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B8" title="Ажилчин анги – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Ажилчин анги" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werkende_klasse" title="Werkende klasse – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Werkende klasse" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%B4%E5%83%8D%E8%80%85%E9%9A%8E%E7%B4%9A" title="労働者階級 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="労働者階級" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeiderklasse" title="Arbeiderklasse – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Arbeiderklasse" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeidarklassen" title="Arbeidarklassen – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Arbeidarklassen" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BC%E0%A8%A6%E0%A9%82%E0%A8%B0_%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A4" title="ਮਜ਼ਦੂਰ ਜਮਾਤ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਮਜ਼ਦੂਰ ਜਮਾਤ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B2%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%B7%D8%A8%D9%82%DB%81" title="مزدور طبقہ – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="مزدور طبقہ" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a 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</div> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"><span class="mw-redirectedfrom">(Redirected from <a href="/w/index.php?title=Working-class&redirect=no" class="mw-redirect" title="Working-class">Working-class</a>)</span></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Social class composed of those employed in lower-tier jobs</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Working_Class_(TV_series)" title="Working Class (TV series)"><i>Working Class</i> (TV series)</a> or <a href="/wiki/Working_Class_(film)" title="Working Class (film)"><i>Working Class</i> (film)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Woman_working_at_ongoing_construction_of_St._Paul%27s_Hospital_Cardiac_center,_Ethiopia_18.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Woman_working_at_ongoing_construction_of_St._Paul%27s_Hospital_Cardiac_center%2C_Ethiopia_18.jpg/220px-Woman_working_at_ongoing_construction_of_St._Paul%27s_Hospital_Cardiac_center%2C_Ethiopia_18.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Woman_working_at_ongoing_construction_of_St._Paul%27s_Hospital_Cardiac_center%2C_Ethiopia_18.jpg/330px-Woman_working_at_ongoing_construction_of_St._Paul%27s_Hospital_Cardiac_center%2C_Ethiopia_18.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Woman_working_at_ongoing_construction_of_St._Paul%27s_Hospital_Cardiac_center%2C_Ethiopia_18.jpg/440px-Woman_working_at_ongoing_construction_of_St._Paul%27s_Hospital_Cardiac_center%2C_Ethiopia_18.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3456" data-file-height="4608" /></a><figcaption>Construction workers, commonly regarded as working class, at work at St. Paul's Hospital Cardiac center in <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>, 2017</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>working class</b> is a subset of employees who are compensated with <a href="/wiki/Wage" title="Wage">wage</a> or <a href="/wiki/Salary" title="Salary">salary</a>-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Members of the working class rely primarily upon earnings from <a href="/wiki/Wage_labour" title="Wage labour">wage labour</a>. Most common definitions of "working class" in use in the United States limit its membership to workers who hold <a href="/wiki/Blue-collar_worker" title="Blue-collar worker">blue-collar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pink-collar_worker" title="Pink-collar worker">pink-collar</a> jobs, or whose income is insufficiently high to place them in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_class" title="Middle class">middle class</a>, or both. However, socialists define "working class" to include all workers who fall into this category; thus, this definition can include almost all of the working population of <a href="/wiki/Developed_country" title="Developed country">industrialized economies</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Definitions">Definitions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Working_class&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Definitions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As with many terms describing <a href="/wiki/Social_class" title="Social class">social class</a>, <i>working class</i> is defined and used in different ways. One definition used by many <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialists</a> is that the working class includes all those who have nothing to sell but their labour, a group otherwise referred to as the <a href="/wiki/Proletariat" title="Proletariat">proletariat</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In this sense, the working class includes white and blue-collar workers, manual and menial workers of all types, excluding individuals who derive their livelihood from business ownership or the labour of others.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcKibbin2000164_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKibbin2000164-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag needs to be fact-checked with the cited source(s). (November 2018)">verification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The term, which is primarily used to evoke images of laborers suffering "class disadvantage in spite of their individual effort", can also have racial connotations, applying diverse themes of poverty and implications about whether one is deserving of aid.<sup id="cite_ref-Feingold_2020_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Feingold_2020-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In other contexts the term <i>working class</i> refers to a section of society dependent on physical <a href="/wiki/Labour_economics" title="Labour economics">labour</a>, especially when compensated with an hourly <a href="/wiki/Wage" title="Wage">wage</a> (for certain types of science, as well as journalistic or political analysis). Working-class occupations can be categorized into four groups: unskilled labourers, artisans, <a href="/wiki/Outworker" class="mw-redirect" title="Outworker">outworkers</a>, and factory workers.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoob2013_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoob2013-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (November 2018)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Common alternative definitions of Working Class include definition by income level,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELinkon19994_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELinkon19994-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> whereby the working class is contrasted with a <i><a href="/wiki/Middle_class" title="Middle class">middle class</a></i> on the basis of access to economic resources, <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a>, cultural interests, and other goods and services, and the "white working class" has been "loosely defined" by the New York Times as comprising <a href="/wiki/White_people" title="White people">white people</a> without college degrees.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTCanary_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTCanary-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Researchers in Australia have suggested that <i>working class</i> status should be defined subjectively as a self-identification with the working class group.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERubinDensonKilpatrickMatthews2014199_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERubinDensonKilpatrickMatthews2014199-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This subjective approach allows individuals, rather than researchers, to define their own "subjective" and "perceived" social class. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marxist_definition:_the_proletariat">Marxist definition: the proletariat</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Working_class&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Marxist definition: the proletariat"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Proletariat" title="Proletariat">Proletariat</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Battle_strike_1934.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Battle_strike_1934.jpg/220px-Battle_strike_1934.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Battle_strike_1934.jpg/330px-Battle_strike_1934.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Battle_strike_1934.jpg/440px-Battle_strike_1934.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1386" data-file-height="1106" /></a><figcaption>Striking teamsters battling police on the streets of <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis" title="Minneapolis">Minneapolis</a>, Minnesota, June 1934</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a> defined the working class or <a href="/wiki/Proletariat" title="Proletariat">proletariat</a> as those individuals who sell their <a href="/wiki/Labour_power" title="Labour power">labour power</a> for <a href="/wiki/Wage" title="Wage">wages</a> and who do not own the <a href="/wiki/Means_of_production" title="Means of production">means of production</a>. He argued that they were responsible for creating the <a href="/wiki/Wealth" title="Wealth">wealth</a> of a society, asserting that the working class physically build bridges, craft furniture, grow food, and nurse children, but do not own land or <a href="/wiki/Factories" class="mw-redirect" title="Factories">factories</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELebowitz201614–15_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELebowitz201614–15-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A sub-section of the proletariat, the <a href="/wiki/Lumpenproletariat" title="Lumpenproletariat">lumpenproletariat</a> (<i>rag-proletariat</i>), are the extremely poor and unemployed, such as <a href="/wiki/Day_labourer" class="mw-redirect" title="Day labourer">day labourers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Homeless" class="mw-redirect" title="Homeless">homeless</a> people. Marx considered them to be devoid of class consciousness. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pyramid_of_Capitalist_System.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Pyramid_of_Capitalist_System.jpg/200px-Pyramid_of_Capitalist_System.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="260" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Pyramid_of_Capitalist_System.jpg/300px-Pyramid_of_Capitalist_System.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Pyramid_of_Capitalist_System.jpg/400px-Pyramid_of_Capitalist_System.jpg 2x" data-file-width="763" data-file-height="990" /></a><figcaption>Communist conception of <a href="/wiki/Social_class" title="Social class">class society</a> in 1900—1901. The drawing was based on a leaflet of the "Union of Russian Socialists".</figcaption></figure> <p>In Marxist terms <a href="/wiki/Wage_slavery" title="Wage slavery">wage labourers</a> and those dependent on the <a href="/wiki/Welfare_state" title="Welfare state">welfare state</a> are working class, and those who live on <a href="/wiki/Capital_accumulation" title="Capital accumulation">accumulated capital</a> are not, and this broad dichotomy defines the <a href="/wiki/Class_struggle" class="mw-redirect" title="Class struggle">class struggle</a>. In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto" title="The Communist Manifesto">The Communist Manifesto</a></i>, Marx and <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Engels" title="Friedrich Engels">Friedrich Engels</a> argue that it is the destiny of the working class to displace the <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalist</a> system, with the <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat" title="Dictatorship of the proletariat">dictatorship of the proletariat</a> (as opposed to the "<a href="/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_bourgeoisie" class="mw-redirect" title="Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie">dictatorship of the bourgeoisie</a>") abolishing the social relationships underpinning the class system before then developing into a <a href="/wiki/Communist" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist">communist</a> society in which "the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_and_growth">History and growth</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Working_class&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History and growth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Victorian_Bishopgate.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Victorian_Bishopgate.jpg/220px-Victorian_Bishopgate.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Victorian_Bishopgate.jpg/330px-Victorian_Bishopgate.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Victorian_Bishopgate.jpg/440px-Victorian_Bishopgate.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="313" /></a><figcaption>Working class life in <a href="/wiki/Edwardian_era" title="Edwardian era">Edwardian</a> <a href="/wiki/St_Ives,_Cornwall" title="St Ives, Cornwall">St Ives</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cornwall" title="Cornwall">Cornwall, England</a>, 1906</figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Feudalism" title="Feudalism">feudal</a> Europe, the working class as such did not exist in large numbers. Instead, most people were part of the labouring class, a group made up of different professions, trades and occupations. A lawyer, craftsman and peasant were all considered to be part of the same <a href="/wiki/Social_group" title="Social group">social unit</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Estates_of_the_realm" title="Estates of the realm">third estate</a> of people who were neither <a href="/wiki/Aristocracy_(class)" title="Aristocracy (class)">aristocrats</a> nor church officials. Similar hierarchies existed outside Europe in other <a href="/wiki/Pre-industrial_societies" class="mw-redirect" title="Pre-industrial societies">pre-industrial societies</a>. The social position of these labouring classes was viewed as ordained by <a href="/wiki/Natural_law" title="Natural law">natural law</a> and common religious belief. This social position was contested, particularly by peasants, for example during the <a href="/wiki/German_Peasants%27_War" title="German Peasants' War">German Peasants' War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAbendroth197311–12_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAbendroth197311–12-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the late 18th century, under the influence of the <a href="/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment" title="Age of Enlightenment">Enlightenment</a>, European society was in a state of change, and this change could not be reconciled with the idea of a changeless God-created social order. Wealthy members of these societies created ideologies which blamed many of the problems of working-class people on their morals and ethics (i.e. excessive consumption of alcohol, perceived laziness and inability to save money). In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Making_of_the_English_Working_Class" title="The Making of the English Working Class">The Making of the English Working Class</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/E._P._Thompson" title="E. P. Thompson">E. P. Thompson</a> argues that the English working class was present at its own creation, and seeks to describe the transformation of pre-modern labouring classes into a modern, politically self-conscious, working class.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAbendroth1973_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAbendroth1973-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag needs to be fact-checked with the cited source(s). (November 2018)">verification needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Starting around 1917, a number of countries became ruled ostensibly in the interests of the working class (see <a href="/wiki/Soviet_working_class" title="Soviet working class">Soviet working class</a>). Some historians have noted that a key change in these Soviet-style societies has been a new type of <a href="/wiki/Proletarianization" title="Proletarianization">proletarianization</a>, often effected by the administratively achieved forced displacement of peasants and rural workers. Since then, four major industrial states have turned towards semi-market-based governance (<a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laos" title="Laos">Laos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>), and one state has turned inwards into an increasing cycle of poverty and brutalization (<a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a>). Other states of this sort have collapsed (such as the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKuromiya199087_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKuromiya199087-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since 1960, large-scale proletarianization and <a href="/wiki/Enclosure" title="Enclosure">enclosure</a> of commons has occurred in the <a href="/wiki/Third_world" class="mw-redirect" title="Third world">third world</a>, generating new working classes. Additionally, countries such as <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> have been slowly undergoing social change, expanding the size of the urban working class.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGutkind1988_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGutkind1988-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (November 2018)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Informal_working_class">Informal working class</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Working_class&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Informal working class"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Informal_economy" title="Informal economy">Informal economy</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Floating_rag_picker_(1803617563).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Floating_rag_picker_%281803617563%29.jpg/300px-Floating_rag_picker_%281803617563%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="199" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Floating_rag_picker_%281803617563%29.jpg/450px-Floating_rag_picker_%281803617563%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Floating_rag_picker_%281803617563%29.jpg/600px-Floating_rag_picker_%281803617563%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="722" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Ragpicker" class="mw-redirect" title="Ragpicker">Ragpicker</a> in Delhi, India</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Workforce#Informal_labour" title="Workforce">informal working class</a> is a sociological term coined by <a href="/wiki/Mike_Davis_(scholar)" title="Mike Davis (scholar)">Mike Davis</a> for a class of over a billion predominantly young urban people who are in no way formally connected to the <a href="/wiki/World_economy" title="World economy">global economy</a> and who try to survive primarily in <a href="/wiki/Slum" title="Slum">slums</a>. According to Davis, this class no longer corresponds to the <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">socio-theoretical</a> concepts of a class, from Marx, <a href="/wiki/Max_Weber" title="Max Weber">Max Weber</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Modernization_theory" title="Modernization theory">theory of modernization</a>. Thereafter, this class developed worldwide from the 1960s, especially in the southern hemisphere. In contrast to previous notions of a class of the lumpen proletariat or the notions of a "slum of hope" from the 1920s and 1930s, members of this class are given hardly any chances of attaining membership of the formal economic structures.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Higher_education">Higher education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Working_class&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Higher education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Diane_Reay" title="Diane Reay">Diane Reay</a> stresses the challenges that working-class students can face during the transition to and within higher education, and research intensive universities in particular. One factor can be the university community being perceived as a predominately middle-class social space, creating a sense of otherness due to class differences in social norms and knowledge of navigating academia.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Laborer">Laborer</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Working_class&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Laborer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="excerpt-block"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066933788">.mw-parser-output .excerpt-hat .mw-editsection-like{font-style:normal}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable dablink excerpt-hat selfref">This section is an excerpt from <a href="/wiki/Laborer" title="Laborer">Laborer</a>.<span class="mw-editsection-like plainlinks"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laborer&action=edit">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><div class="excerpt"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:201107120-RD-LSC-0067_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/201107120-RD-LSC-0067_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov.jpg/220px-201107120-RD-LSC-0067_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/201107120-RD-LSC-0067_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov.jpg/330px-201107120-RD-LSC-0067_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/201107120-RD-LSC-0067_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov.jpg/440px-201107120-RD-LSC-0067_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4928" data-file-height="2870" /></a><figcaption>Laborer at work in a factory</figcaption></figure> A <a href="/wiki/Laborer" title="Laborer">laborer</a> (or labourer) is a person who works in <a href="/wiki/Manual_labour" title="Manual labour">manual labor</a> types, especially in the <a href="/wiki/Construction" title="Construction">construction</a> and <a href="/wiki/Factory" title="Factory">factory</a> industries. Laborers are in a working class of <a href="/wiki/Wage_labour" title="Wage labour">wage-earners</a> in which their only possession of significant material value is their <a href="/wiki/Labour_(human_activity)" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour (human activity)">labor</a>. Industries employing laborers include building things such as roads, road paving, buildings, bridges, tunnels, pipelines civil and industrial, and railway tracks. Laborers work with <a href="/wiki/Rock_blasting" class="mw-redirect" title="Rock blasting">blasting</a> tools, <a href="/wiki/Laborer_hand_tools" class="mw-redirect" title="Laborer hand tools">hand tools</a>, <a href="/wiki/Power_tool" title="Power tool">power tools</a>, <a href="/wiki/Air_tools" class="mw-redirect" title="Air tools">air tools</a>, and small <a href="/wiki/Heavy_equipment" title="Heavy equipment">heavy equipment</a>, and act as assistants to tradesmen as well <sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> such as operators or cement masons. The 1st century BC engineer <a href="/wiki/Vitruvius" title="Vitruvius">Vitruvius</a> writes that a good crew of laborers is just as valuable as any other aspect of construction. Other than the addition of <a href="/wiki/Pneumatic" class="mw-redirect" title="Pneumatic">pneumatics</a>, laborer practices have changed little. 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London: <a href="/wiki/I.B._Tauris" title="I.B. Tauris">I.B. 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