Editing Social class (section)

====Lower class====
[[File:Camden NJ poverty.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.15|In many countries, the lowest stratum of the working class, the [[underclass]], often lives in urban areas with low-quality [[civil services]]]]
{{Main|Working class |Proletariat}}
{{See also|Precarity}}

The lower class (occasionally described as the working class) are those employed in low-paying [[wage]] jobs with very little economic security. The term "lower class" also refers to persons with low income.

The working class is sometimes separated into those who are employed but lacking financial security (the "[[working poor]]") and an [[underclass]]—those who are long-term [[unemployed]] and/or [[homeless]], especially those receiving [[welfare spending|welfare]] from the [[state (polity)|state]]. The latter is today considered analogous to the Marxist term "[[lumpenproletariat]]". However, during the time of Marx's writing the lumpenproletariat referred to those in dire poverty; such as the homeless.<ref name="Brown-2009-953" /> Members of the working class are sometimes called [[blue-collar worker]]s.