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Examines the connection between middle-class civil servants and trade union ideologies during the 1918-1928 period. Discusses the growing militancy of public sector employees after the First World War. Analyzes the tensions between white-collar workers and manual labourers, and white-collar workers' connections to the labour movement. Discusses the implications of the situation of middle-class workers with regards to the class struggle and proletarianization. Concludes that proletarianization is not an either/or process, and that there are opportunities for alliances between the salaried workers and the proletariat.