industrial worker
Manufacturing sector employee
A person employed in manufacturing, mining, construction, or other industries involving physical production rather than agriculture or office work.
Industrial workers operate machinery, assemble products, and perform manual labor in factories, plants, and similar facilities: The strike brought thousands of industrial workers into the streets.
The term often carries connotations of organized labor and working-class identity.
- welderOne who fuses metals
- machinistMetal parts fabricator
- laborerPhysical task performer
- factory floorManufacturing workspace area
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
blue-collar · wage earner · lathe · hard hat · work boots · tool belt · assembly line · conveyor belt · shift change · punch card · factory whistle · foundry · forklift operator · union · steel mill · warehouse · welding torch · grease
- workersemployee, employees, laborer, laborers, wage earner
- class struggleclass conflict, class warfare, class divide, class struggle, class consciousness
- industrial managementassembly line, mass production, factory floor, production line, division of labor
- Communist Symbolshammer and sickle, red star, Soviet flag, red banner, CCCP
- Soviet laborgulag, gulags, labor camp, production quota, central planning
industrial workeroffice worker
Indoor professional employee
knowledge worker · executive · clerical worker · pencil pusher · bureaucrat
industrial workercapitalist
Private ownership supporter
industrialist · business owner · employer · bourgeoisie · proprietor
industrial workeragricultural worker
Person who farms
farm laborer · peasant · service worker · domestic worker · farmhand
worker, working, industry, workers, worked, workable, industrial, workforce, workman