There are "workers", but the "working class" as an organised political entity has been decimated.

Technology has done the same to the "tinkers"


Jim ...our house stands on an isolated crossroads, in the early fifties the door was always open, and the travellers knew that there was always a cup of tea, a fill of tobacco and in the cold weather a nip of whisky waiting for them.
They always insisted on leaving a string of "whangs"(leather boot laces), a card of buttons, or some hooks and eyes and a "purn" of thread...they could tell the finest stories.....our family were well known to them.