>Stated differently, 'working class' - as used in this country - is an
>emotive rather than an empirical concept - it expresses certain emotions,
>attitudes and cultural values (such as anti-intellectualism and populism)
>rather than connotes an empirically identifiable feature that identifies a
>class of individuals regardless of their cultural or ideological traits.
There's more than a little truth in that.
Nevertheless, the working class exists, even in the absence of clear class-consciousness. In fact it may be that the working class continues to exist ONLY because of its lack of class-consciousness. If the working class was fully class-consciousness, it would promptly abolish classes and cease to exist.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas