Working class

The working class is a social class found mainly in industrialised capitalist societies or in urban centres. While some writers dispute the existence of a working class, many sociologists, historians and political theorists make use of the concept in their academic writing.

Further reading

• Engels, Friedrich, Condition of the Working Class in England , Stanford University Press (1968), trade paperback, ISBN 0804706344 Numerous other editions exist; first published in German in 1845. Better editions include a preface written by Engels in 1892.
• Ernest Mandel, Workers under Neo-capitalism

http://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/19xx/xx/neocap.htm

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• Moran, W. (2002). Belles of New England: The women of the textile mills and the families whose wealth they wove. New York: St Martin's Press, ISBN 0312301839.
• Rubin, Lillian Breslow, Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working Class Family, Basic Books (1976), hardcover ISBN 0465091454; trade paperback, 268 pages, ISBN 0465097243
• Shipler, David K., The Working Poor:Invisible in America, Knopf (2004), hardcover, 322 pages, ISBN 0375408908
• Thompson, E.P, The Making of the English Working Class - paperback Penguin, ISBN 0140136037
• Michael Zweig, Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret, Cornell University Press (2001), trade paperback, 198 pages, ISBN 0801487277