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# Labouring Poor

## Definition

The great body of people who live by wages, including labourers, journeymen, and servants of every kind, who make up the far greater part of every great political society and whose improved circumstances are regarded as an advantage rather than an inconvenience to society.

## Source Chapter

Book I, Chapter 8

## Context

The central focus of Smith's analysis of wages, representing the majority of society whose welfare is presented as essential to a flourishing and happy society.

## Economic Domain

Distribution

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