Working class

Construction workers, commonly regarded as working class, at work at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston

The working class 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.

  1. ^ "Working Class". Cambridge Dictionary. Archived from the original on 25 April 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  2. ^ "working class". Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on 16 July 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2014.