>
> Will someone please define for me the phrase "working class"? It seems
> to mean variously; blue collar; union member; non-professional white
> guys.... anybody know for sure?
>
> And, is this supposed to indicate that people who work in
professions =
> those who used to be "white collar" workers, don't really work anymore?
> .....Carol
>
I can give you the workable definition that we history geeks agreed on
today.
Traditionally Blue and Pink collar workers. Working class would refer
to those individuals for whom work by necessity provides the core
around which the family structure revolves. These are individuals who
would be recognized as non-salaried non-professional workers in
non-agrarian jobs.
While no one suggests that the professional workers do not work...
their work does not by necessity dictate their family structure. Of
course their are exceptions... the agrarian exception is necessary
because typically in a modern economy the working class is removed
from the fruits of labor. So while again their are exceptions by and
large the agrarian worker is not considered part of the working class.
Historically this distinction is important when viewing events like
the French Revolution or the Bolshevik Revolution. Class distinction
plays a critical role in both. The white collar and merchant class of
course is the bourgeois.
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