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aristocracy of labour en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of labour aristocracy.
   alt of labour aristocracy
   • 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. 1996, Colin Ward, “Anarchy and a Plausible Future”, in Anarchy in Action, 2nd edition, page 16:
   • Эта рабочая аристократия, имевшая тогда сносные заработки, замкнулась в узкие, своекорыстно-цеховые, союзы, отделившись от массы пролетариата и будучи в политике на стороне либеральной буржуазии. 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:

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