The New Working Class
The shelf stackers, delivers and drivers
Can hardly be called skivers.
The nurses and old people carers
The compassion sharers.
They’re the new working class
Grafting on minimum wage and zero hours,
Exploited by those in their ivory towers.
Picking the crops in all types of weather
Cleaning wards and polishing leather
They’re the new working class.
Pushed off assembly lines by automation;
Now delivering parcels across the nation.
Kicked out of the pits and out of the mills;
Now having to learn far lesser skills.
They’re the new working class.
They get treated like dirt
And looked down upon,
But it’s them that we turn to
When things go wrong –
The new working class.
Opher – 17.5.2020