industrial workers
Manufacturing sector workforce
Industrial workers are people employed in manufacturing, construction, mining, or other industries involving physical production of goods.
The term emphasizes manual labor in factories, plants, and similar settings, often in contrast to white-collar office workers: The strike united industrial workers across the region.
Labor movements historically organized industrial workers to advocate for better wages and conditions.
- labor unionsWorker collectives for negotiations
- labor movementOrganized effort for worker rights
- rank and fileOrdinary members collectively
- assembly plantFacility for manufacturing goods
- factory floorManufacturing workspace area
shop floor · proletariat · machinist · textile mill · factory workers · blue-collar workers · lathe · welder · shipyard · foundry · welding torch · laborers · wage disputes · overtime pay · Taylorism · sweat equity · night shift · occupational hazard
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- Industrial Imagerymachinery, factories, smokestacks, assembly lines, gears
- industrial photographyassembly line, production photos, manufacturing, heavy machinery, chemical plants
- labor historyAFL-CIO, workers, labor movement, CIO, laborers
- labor unionsunion dues, trade union, union membership, labor union, union shops
- 1905 RevolutionBloody Sunday, Tsar Nicholas II, Potemkin, general strike, Winter Palace
industrial workerswhite-collar workers
Salaried professional employees
knowledge workers · office workers · executives · managers · professionals
industrial workerscapitalists
Owners of productive wealth
industrialists · bourgeoisie · business owners · employers · shareholders
industrial workersagricultural workers
People who cultivate land
farm workers · peasants · farmers · field hands · fishermen