Working class
Social class composed of those employed in lower-tier jobs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the TV series, see Working Class (TV series).
The working class, or in Marxist terms, the proletariat, includes all employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts.[1][2] Working-class occupations (see also "designation of workers by collar colour") include blue-collar jobs, and most pink-collar jobs. Members of the working class rely exclusively upon earnings from wage labour; thus, according to 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.
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