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".
Blue-collar worker
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A blue-collar worker is a person who performs manual labor or skilled trades. Originating and used most frequently in the United States, the term 'Blue-collar work' may involve skilled or unskilled la
Working class
…primarily upon earnings from wage labour. Most common definitions of "working class" in use in the United States limit its membership to workers who hold blue-collar and pink-collar jobs, or whose income is insufficiently high to place them in the middle class, or both. However, socialists define "working class" to…
A mechanic at work wearing blue coveralls
A welder making boilers at the Combustion Engineering Company in Chattanooga, Tennessee in June 1942. Despite their name, blue-collar workers do not always or typically wear blue shirts.
Workers constructing a photovoltaic system in Zugspitze, Germany
A textile factory outside Dhaka, Bangladesh