SA wrote:
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>> Bartels' methodology is deeply questionable. His definition of the
>> "white working class" is whites in the bottom third of the income
>> distribution, which comes to a bit more than one fourth of whites.
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^^^^ CB: Yeah. Evidently, his definition of "working class" inherently and literally, divides it up into thirds and then names only one-third of it "working class".
Class is defined by relationship to the means of production. Everybody who doesn't own means of production and employ significant wage-labor is working class. What in the US is termed "middle class" is largely working class. Many auto-workers, steel-workers, teachers, et al are middle class-working class.
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