What does working-class mean?

Definitions for working-class
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. labor, labour, working class, proletariatadjective

    a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

    "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

  2. propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collaradjective

    of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers

    "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw

  3. wage-earning, working-classadjective

    working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries

    "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor"

Wiktionary

  1. working-classadjective

    of or pertaining to the working class

Wikipedia

  1. working-class

    The working class (or labouring class) comprises those engaged in manual-labour occupations or industrial work, who are remunerated via waged or salaried contracts. Working-class occupations (see also "Designation of workers by collar colour") include blue-collar jobs, and most pink-collar jobs. Members of the working class rely exclusively upon earnings from wage labour; thus, according to more inclusive definitions, the category can include almost all of the working population of industrialized economies, as well as those employed in the urban areas (cities, towns, villages) of non-industrialized economies or in the rural workforce.

ChatGPT

  1. working-class

    The working-class refers to individuals in a social group, primarily characterized by their employment in low-paying, manual or industrial labor jobs. This includes professions such as factory workers, craftspeople, laborers, and similar roles. They often have lower levels of education and income when compared to other social classes. Working-class individuals and families may also be referred to as blue-collar workers.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'working-class' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4614

  2. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'working-class' in Adjectives Frequency: #640

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of working-class in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of working-class in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of working-class in a Sentence

  1. Jason Smith:

    Working-class people have become disillusioned with Labour, in Bradford West, they're looking towards George Galloway. In Bradford South, they're looking towards UKIP.

  2. Tim Ryan:

    We will not be a national party unless we have the working class back on our side and that’s what this election is all about.

  3. Sean Westwood:

    Democrats used to be the party of the working class, but today they are instead seen as a party defined by ostensibly legalizing property crime, crippling the police, and injecting social justice into math classes.

  4. Philippe Pujol:

    I'm not sure there is any political will, because as soon as there's an election, we make use of the working-class areas to speak about violence, immigration, jobs, and the people who allegedly don't want to work.

  5. Mickaela Bradford:

    Often, there's not the understanding that trans men are men and that nonbinary people are nonbinary people, and the needs of both of those categories and folks who are capable of pregnancy are often overlooked, so even before Roe v. Wade was overturned, folks were struggling to find reproductive care that was affirming of their gender identities, struggling to find accessible, affordable, safe reproductive care -- particularly folks who are Black, disabled, working class and living in the South.

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