What defines class? Is it the job you have, or your childhood experiences? | Letters

Guardian readers respond to Daniel Lavelle’s piece about living in class limboIn his critical reflections on the Marxist definition of the working class (My life in class limbo: am I working class or insufferably bourgeois?, 2 April), Daniel Lavelle wonders how a cleaner and a Premier League footballer could be deemed as part of the same class. They shouldn’t be, because they’re not the same class. Unlike the cleaner, the Premier League footballer doesn’t depend on his wa