Here are some elements of a job similar to those which many people will be working this holiday season. I just finished a biography of Benjamin Franklin and, although I wouldn’t characterize warehouse receiving job pictured below as ‘leather apron’* work, it can describe the class of work of that many people of today’s working middle class perform.
* A term Franklin used to describe the work of artisans and other trades people of the 18th century middle class.
And people in India too!
There’s a whole caste of artisans.
Thanks, Adelaide. That’s interesting!