The term worker is used to refer to the following questions: those who work, workers and everything related to them.
Manual worker who receives a salary in exchange for his work and who generally works in construction sites and industries
In any case, the most widespread use is to refer to the salaried manual worker, also known as operario.
The worker is an adult individual, that is, he has reached the age of majority, a fact that enables him to perform in a service, and that he performs his work for a company or for a particular person, that is, he can be hired by a large company or by an individual.
A worker-boss bond is established between the two, in which the worker is subordinate to the directives of the boss. In exchange for his work, he receives a remuneration previously agreed upon and before being hired.
The worker usually performs in construction sites, as the building or structure under construction is called, in which a work of this type is being carried out, or failing that, a broken building is being fixed. "The three workers we hired were not enough to finish the work on the terrace and therefore we had to extend it a few more days".
And the other work environment in which the presence of workers is also recurrent is in the industry, also known as operatives here, the workers are those who have the mission of carrying out the production of the industry in question.
Generally, in large industries each of the workers is assigned a task that must be carried out in a timely manner because it is in relation to the rest that their colleagues deploy and that allow the manufacture of a product.
Now, the worker can work on a dependent basis, that is, hired by a company in which he performs his task and fulfills a schedule, or he can work independently, managing his time himself and working for more than one person at the same time. time.
In any case, the first case is the most common for this type of worker.
A concept that emerged strongly during the Industrial Revolution
It would be from the Industrial Revolution, which was the most relevant historical event in history in terms of the development of industry, that new modes of production and also in terms of productive relations would begin to be determined.
Thus it is that the proletariat, made up of the group of workers who worked in the brand-new and incipient factories that were opened en masse from the Industrial Revolution, began to be considered as the social class that lent its workforce in exchange for the receipt of a salary or economic compensation. Meanwhile, its location within the social pyramid would be in the lowest part, composing the lower class of society.
On the other side of the road appeared the capitalists, the owners of these factories, who were the owners of the means of production and who established the working rules for the proletariat, who had nothing left to do.
This was clear until the union organizations began to appear in the following century that were concerned and concerned with improving the conditions of the workers.
A member of the working class that contributes the labor factor to the economic system
The worker integrates, is part of what is known as working class, what is the social class to which belongs the set of individuals who would appear as a consequence of salaried work.
In a modern economy such as today, the working class is one that contributes to the economic system the labor factor at the behest of production, meanwhile, in exchange they receive a salary from the owners of the means of production.
The working class is on a social scale smaller than the capitalist class which is precisely what capital contributes to the production process.
On the other hand, the working class concept is used to distinguish salaried industrial workers from other groups such as rural workers, the self-employed, service employees, among others.
We must also say that the concept is widely used as a synonym for worker, although of course, lately this last term is the one that has gained the upper hand in our language to refer to workers.
