At the steel plant, all minorities hired are assigned to work the battery pits, one of the dirtiest jobs in the mill. even so, the battery pit workers wear this assignment as a badge of honor and have developed a close social bond that transcends the time they spend at the mill. how would karl marx describe their solidarity?

Karl Marx would describe their solidarity as " workers share class consciousness".

Class consciousness in political theory and especially Marxism, refer to the arrangement of beliefs that a man holds with respect to their social class or financial rank in the public eye, the structure of their class, and their class advantages. It is a mindfulness that is critical to starting an upheaval.