Working-class identity is shaped by the material reality of selling your labor for survival—a lived relationship to work, money, and power that shapes how you navigate institutions, relationships, and self-worth in ways that persist long after individual economic mobility. Understanding this identity means recognizing that class is not merely an income bracket but a set of embodied practices, knowledge systems, and constraints that determine who has time to rest, whose voice gets heard in rooms, and which aspirations feel possible.
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