Working-class Synonyms

A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
Synonyms:
  1. proletariat
  2. blue-collar workers
  3. common laborer
  4. common laborers
  5. factory laborer
  6. factory laborers
  7. grass-roots
  8. labor
  9. laboring class
  10. plebeians
  11. proles
  12. rank-and-file
  13. the other half
  14. unskilled laborer
  15. unskilled laborers
  16. wage-earners
  17. workers
  18. labour
  19. workfolk
  20. working people
  21. working stiff
  22. working stiffs
  23. workpeople
Of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; - G.B.Shaw
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. wage-earning
  2. propertyless
  3. blue-collar
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Working-class Sentence Examples

  • Carl was born into a working-class Jewish family in New York in 1934.

  • The film, which stars Ali MacGraw as Jennifer and Ryan O'Neal as Oliver, tells the story of a rich boy who falls in love with a working-class girl.

  • Cayce had an eighth-grade education, something that was not unusual for a young man from a working-class family at the time.

  • It was brought to the country by the French and became so popular, even a working-class Japanese woman invests in fine lingerie.

  • Wages vary greatly in different parts of Italy, according to the cost of the necessaries of life, the degree of development of working-class needs and the state of working-class organization, which in some places has succeeded in increasing the rates of pay.

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