Anyone who is a wage earner, be it CEO, MD, workers, security guards, police, etc etc with a paid master are consider working class, within the working class, there is the division of labours and status that form the hierrachy system for control and order.
Originally posted by NerdzRulz:Does living in a HDB considered working class?
No, living in HDB is HDB class
The majority of Singaporeans belong to the lower middle class range (also commonly referred to in singapore as working class). Usually these refers to the higher earning blue collar workers in Singapore(poly diplomas). The next biggest class is the upper middle class (lower-midhigh white collar/graduates), consisting of the middle management people (managers, higher grade civil servants)
In Singapore for you to be considered as living in poverty, you would have to live on less than SGD10 a day. For more information can go check on Singapore Statistics Book at your nearest Public LIbrary.
for all the uneducated people here. Working class DOES NOT refer to all people who are working. Who taught you that 'working' is to be taken literally? The 'working class' is a social entity comprising largely of blue collared workers and lower income earners. Above the working class would be the middle classe in which you would find some businessmen, merchants and the intelligentsia. above that would be the upper classes, mainly aristocracy although the highly successful merchants might make it here by virtue of income.