ABSTRACT
The proletarian condition, the working condition, the wage-earning condition: these are the three dominant forms of the labor relationship in industrial society, and also three modalities of relationships that link the universe of labor with society at large. Although, roughly speaking, we could say that they succeed one another, their pathway is not linear. With respect to the question posed here of the status of wage-labor as a source of social identity and communal integration, they rather present themselves as three distinctive subjects.
