industrial workforce
Manufacturing sector laborers
The industrial workforce comprises workers employed in manufacturing, mining, construction, and other sectors that produce physical goods or extract resources.
The term often contrasts with agricultural or service-sector workers: The industrial workforce shrank as factories moved overseas.
It can evoke blue-collar labor, unions, and the economic transformations of industrialization.
- skilled laborTrained professional work
- blue collarManual labor workforce
- unionizationForming a labor collective
- trade unionWorkers' collective for negotiations
- wagesPayment for work
living wage · punch clock · machinery · manufacturing · hard hat · labor laws · construction · strikes · night shift · shop floor · engineers · machinists · mining · shipbuilding · welders · occupational hazards · automation systems · workplace safety
industrial workforcewhite-collar workers
Salaried professional employees
knowledge workers · professional class · managerial class · service workers · administrative staff
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