The better off within the working class have often been referred to as a labour aristocracy, though the term has been used differently by various social scientists.

Arrighi and Saul more specifically consider the labour aristocracy to comprise the skilled technicians in large factories and sub-elite of clerks and teachers (Lloyd 1982).

Lloyd points out that it is often those who are called a labour aristocracy, who are the most militant.

"There was no real labour aristocracy in the staple export trades-coal and the main branches of textile manufacture".

Transnational corporations also exert influence by manipulating class contradictions through a compliant comprador bourgeoisie and a denationalised labour aristocracy.

For example, he postulated that the United States working class was a bourgeoisified labour aristocracy).

Differentials between sections of the labour force could be expected to grow, fostering the emergence of a 'labour aristocracy' with little interest in apocalyptic dreams of revolution.

There was minimal evidence of a settled, reformist 'labour aristocracy' emerging.

MDCs have been particularly criticised for failing to provide for the very poorest of society, concentrating on the labour aristocracy, the upper strata of the working classes.

Lenin notes that the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) rely on the Russian trade unions, and that a reactionary labour aristocracy is inevitable, but must be fought within the union movement.