Working class
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The working class is a group of people in a social hierarchy, typically defined by earning wages or salaries through their ability to work. Members of the working class rely primarily upon earnings fr
Construction workers, commonly regarded as working class, at work at St. Paul's Hospital Cardiac center in Ethiopia, 2017
Factory workers manufacturing rope during World War I
Striking teamsters battling police on the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 1934
Socialist conception of class society in 1900–1901. The drawing was based on a leaflet of the "Union of Russian Socialists".
Karl Marx
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Karl Marx was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He developed the theory of historical materialism, analyzing class struggle under
Marx's birthplace, now Brückenstraße 10, in Trier. The family occupied two rooms on the ground floor and three on the first floor. Purchased by the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928, it now houses a museum devoted to him.
Jenny von Westphalen in the 1830s
Trierer students in front of the White Horse, among them, Karl Marx
Inscription at the University of Jena commemorating the PhD he was awarded there in 1841