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working class  

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  • Classically the working class is defined as that class which sells its labour power; it is Karl Marx's proletariat. But as such a definition includes almost all of the middle class of modern societies, it is generally refined by narrowing it to those who sell their physical labour power: that is, manual or blue-collar workers. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology; Working Class]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-RZ761R5Z-V

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