Meaning of working class in English

Examples of working class

working class
It was tuberculosis which prompted the response that housing for the working class should be subsidized by the government.
The landscape of the working class is not the same as its bourgeois counterpart.
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It predicted the absolute impoverishment of the working class.
The working class would grow in size and power until it would organize politically and through revolutionary activity abolish capitalism.
Manufacturers, in contrast, demanded the ending of slavery, high tariffs, internal development, state intervention, and a disciplined working class.
Table 2 shows that the bottom two quintiles comprise mostly households in the marginal working class and ' other ' category.
This secular transfiguration of the myth partially explains the desired ' conquest ' of the working class.
By deploying the language of class, the author argues, artisans sought to present themselves as representatives of a broader working class.
The private developers also tried to satisfy the housing necessities of the working class.
This urban peasantry disappeared more or less at the same time as the industrial working class, in historical terms.
There was also severe repression, in the shape of arrests and dismissals, of any dissenting voice from within the working class.
Most historians have seen in the process of organization the flowering of 'working class consciousness'.
The working class had not changed in any material respect but had realistically adapted a traditional culture to new circumstances.
Many in the working class, in particular, tended to be deferential towards authority figures and those in superior class positions.
The working class is the most left-wing group, and it appears that routine non-manual workers are to the right of the foremen and technicians.
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Translations of working class

in Chinese (Traditional)
勞工階級,工人階級…
in Chinese (Simplified)
劳工阶级,工人阶级…
in Spanish
de clase trabajadora, la clase trabajadora, de clase obrera [singular]…
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işçi sınıfı, emekçi sınıfı…
ouvrier/-ière, classe ouvrière…
dělnická třída…
arbejderklasse…
kelas pekerja…
ชนชั้นกรรมาชีพ…
giai cấp công nhân…
klasa robotnicza…
golongan pekerja…
die Arbeiterklasse…
arbeiderklasse-, arbeiderklasse…
proletario, della classe operaia, il proletariato…
рабочий класс…
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