working class
- those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
- the social or economic class composed of these workers.
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Contemporary Examples of working class
But in more middle-class and working-class neighborhoods, sessions are typically a fourth of that price.
You mix up English working-class gruffness with African-American soul from the Deep South.
Iowa told a similar story, where working-class voters gave Republican Joni Ernst a 15 percent edge.
And right now, working-class and blue-collar whites think the Democratic Party is just implacably against them.
Locking up the primary breadwinner can push a family from working-class to impoverished.
Why Isn’t Prison Justice on the Ballot This Tuesday?Inimai Chettiar, Abigail Finkelman
November 1, 2014
Historical Examples of working class
It appeared that the working-class had not realised the seriousness of the situation.
Changing WindsSt. John G. Ervine
That can be effective only so long as the working-class is without sovereignty.
A Preface to PoliticsWalter Lippmann
I don't think they are villagers, but of the working-class, I should say.
T. TembaromFrances Hodgson Burnett
Remains the working-class to see what it can do with the opportunity.
Revolution and Other EssaysJack London
“But the working-class is incapable,” says the capitalist class.
Revolution and Other EssaysJack London
working class
- Also called: proletariat the social stratum, usually of low status, that consists of those who earn wages, esp as manual workersCompare lower class, middle class, upper class
- of, relating to, or characteristic of the working class
working class
In the United States, the population of blue-collar workers, particularly skilled and semiskilled laborers, who differ in values, but not necessarily in income, from the middle class. In Marxism, this term refers to propertyless factory workers.