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The term ‘classes of labour’ has gained increasing currency in recent years. This contribution to ‘key concepts’ begins by outlining why I started to use the term and the contexts and debates which have shaped its uses. I then provide some examples of its recent applications in field-based empirical accounts of social dynamics, finally returning to some theoretical and analytical issues.
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