Honestly I think the way working class is used is causing the same issues as the way middle class is used. Someone at or below the median is just flat out living in an entirely different world than someone at 70k. Different types of labor, different pay structures, different levels of owernship, different medical care, police, housing, legal system, everything.
Yes, they're what Marx would refer to as "Strata", groups with similar modes of production but who don't have the clear separation in ownership of capital and exploitation that makes a Class.
(Or that cross class boundaries, The intelligentsia for example, which includes prole high school teachers and adjunct lecturers and Bourgois tenured faculty at Harvard. Or the PMC.)
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Honestly I think the way working class is used is causing the same issues as the way middle class is used. Someone at or below the median is just flat out living in an entirely different world than someone at 70k. Different types of labor, different pay structures, different levels of owernship, different medical care, police, housing, legal system, everything.
Yes, they're what Marx would refer to as "Strata", groups with similar modes of production but who don't have the clear separation in ownership of capital and exploitation that makes a Class.
(Or that cross class boundaries, The intelligentsia for example, which includes prole high school teachers and adjunct lecturers and Bourgois tenured faculty at Harvard. Or the PMC.)