working class
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The working class refers to people who hold lower-tier jobs in society, such as manual laborers, service workers, and other positions that typically offer lower pay and fewer advancement opportunities. It matters because the working class makes up a significant portion of the population and their economic conditions, job security, and access to benefits affect overall social stability and quality of life for millions of people.
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Construction workers, commonly regarded as working class, at work at St. Paul's Hospital Cardiac center in Ethiopia, 2017 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 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 include all workers who fall into the category of requiring income from wage labour to subsist; thus, this definition can include almost all of the working population of industrialized economies.
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