social class of workers, usually performing manual labor.

A social class of industrial societies broadly composed of people involved in manual occupation. The bulk of these jobs are unskilled, poorly paid and provide few benefits or job security.

Working class is all those people who work for a wage or salary and includes dependents and retirees dependent on a work or state pension.

Working class is a term used to refer to those employed in lower grade jobs as measured by skill, education and incomes. Working class also extends to those in unemployment or possessing below-average [..]

the social grouping originally associated with manual labour but now used in more subtle ways, reflecting social divisions in terms of employment, economic standing, heredity, culture, and other disti [..]

Those working in manual jobs – jobs involving physical work and, literally, work with their hands, like factory or labouring work. See also middle class, social class, upper class.

Also called proletariat. Those who must sell their labor to survive. It is the antithesis of the bourgeoisie in Marx's class analysis.

The social class of those who perform physical work for a living, as opposed to the professional or middle class, the upper class, or others. *en|proletariat