aristocracy of labour
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aristocracy of labour (uncountable)
- Alternative form of labour aristocracy
- 1973 [1913], Vladimir Lenin, Гарри Квелч (В. И. Ленин – Полное собрание сочинений), volume 23, page 439; English translation from George Hanna, transl., Harry Quelch (V. I. Lenin – Collected Works), volume 19, translation of original in Russian, 1977, page 370:
- This aristocracy of labour, which at that time earned tolerably good wages, boxed itself up in narrow, self-interested craft unions, and isolated itself from the mass of the proletariat, while in politics it supported the liberal bourgeoisie.
- Eta rabočaja aristokratija, imevšaja togda snosnyje zarabotki, zamknulasʹ v uzkije, svojekorystno-cexovyje, sojuzy, otdelivšisʹ ot massy proletariata i buduči v politike na storone liberalʹnoj buržuazii.
- 1996, Colin Ward, “Anarchy and a Plausible Future”, in Anarchy in Action, 2nd edition, page 16:
- One of the possibilities they [Jonathan Gershuny and Ray Pahl] see is of a dual labour market: a high-pay, high technology, aristocracy of labour and a low-wage, low-skill sector, and beyond both the mafiosi of big bosses and little crooks.