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working class

DEFINITIONS OF: working class

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n a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

Synonyms:
labor, labour, proletariat
Types:
labor force, labor pool
the source of trained people from which workers can be hired
lumpenproletariat
(Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement
organized labor
employees who are represented by a labor union
Type of:
class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum
people having the same social, economic, or educational status
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