Dealignment Is Real Regardless of How You Measure the Working Class

Chart: Jared AbbottSource: General Social Survey, Occupation-Based measure, 5-Year Period Averages. Following sociologist Daniel Oesch, the traditional working class covers routine manual, clerical and service workers; sociocultural professionals (doctors, professors, journalists) and semi-professionals (nurses, social workers, teachers) share an interpersonal-service work logic, differing by credential and autonomy.Get the dataCreated with Datawrapper