The
working class (also
labouring class and
proletariat) are the people employed for
wages, especially in
manual-labour occupations and in skilled, industrial work. Working-class occupations include
blue-collar jobs, some
white-collar jobs, and most service-work jobs. The working class only rely upon their earnings from
wage labour, thereby, the category includes most of the working population of
industrialized economies, of the
urban areas (cities, towns, villages) of non-industrialized economies, and of the rural workforce.