working classes
- plural of working class.
Example Sentences
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This type of capitalism was predicated on the Judeo-Christian tradition, which, for reasons Bannon does not explain, was adequately able to represent the culture and economic interests of the working-classes.
From The Guardian • Dec. 7, 2016
The multinational working-classes undertook this monotonous, exhausting, degrading and dangerous work on a diet mainly of potatoes, porridge and bread, and tea made from little more than the dust of tea leaves.
From The Guardian • Dec. 4, 2010
By Kevin O'Leary / Los Angeles The middle and working-classes have been hammered by the Great Recession and no industry has taken it more on the chin than construction.
From Time • Feb. 6, 2010
He holds that the working-classes of the country are responsive to the imperial sentiment.
From Time Magazine Archive
It needs a number of years among the lower working-classes to understand what a force public opinion is in all classes in keeping the marriage-bond sacred, and what sweeping misfortunes follow its violation.
From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Brace, Charles Loring
