Meaning of WORKING CLASS
Pronunciation: | | 'wurking klas
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- [n] a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
- [adj] of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw
- [adj] working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor"
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| Synonyms: | | blue-collar, labor, labour, low-class, lower-class, proletariat, propertyless, wage-earning |
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| See Also: | | class, labor force, labor pool, prole, proletarian, social class, socio-economic class, worker | |
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