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working class
1noun
- those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
- the social or economic class composed of these workers.
working-class
2[ wur-king-klas ]
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of the working class, the class of wage earners or manual laborers:
He came from a working-class neighborhood in Nova Scotia, where his mother took in laundry and his father had a job in the coal mine.
working class
noun
- Also calledproletariat the social stratum, usually of low status, that consists of those who earn wages, esp as manual workers Compare lower class middle class upper class
adjective
- 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.
Other Word Forms
- ɴǰiԲ- adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of working class1
Origin of working class2
Example Sentences
An independent regulator should have a role in setting football ticket prices because top-flight matches are often too expensive for working class supporters to attend, an MP has claimed.
The gains have been concentrated at least within the last decade among voters without a college degree, the working class – that is where Republicans have gained even since the beginning of the Donald Trump administration.
"For the first time it was the Kenyan people - the working class and the middle class and the lower class - against the ruling class," says Mwangi.
But, having realised his ambition, he fears the next generation of working class kids are being priced out of Scottish culture.
"I think working class people are sort of neglected, where it's like we're going to put all these things in place and they don't see it through," he said.
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