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Working class
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<p>The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with <a href="/facts/Wage/3fS9dRMf">wage</a> or <a href="/facts/Salary/W4rYGjhe">salary</a>-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition. Members of the working class rely primarily upon earnings from <a href="/facts/Wage_labour/IN7u4epK">wage labour</a>. Most common definitions of "working class" in use in the United States limit its membership to workers who hold <a href="/facts/Blue-collar_worker/cyHTGEQD">blue-collar</a> and <a href="/facts/Pink-collar_worker/CApPSyLU">pink-collar</a> jobs, or whose income is insufficiently high to place them in the <a href="/facts/Middle_class/6EUq9Mue">middle class</a>, or both. However, socialists define "working class" to include all workers who fall into this category; thus, this definition can include almost all of the working population of <a href="/facts/Developed_country/sqwTSDHm">industrialized economies</a>. </p>