1. working class - Noun
2. working class - Adjective
3. working class - Adjective Satellite
of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers
working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries
Source: WordNetworking-class
I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. Jay Gould
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class. Ernest Mandel
Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class. James Callaghan
Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Politics was the route, public service the reward. Jean Chrétien
...the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before. Richard Cobden
Democrats have to figure out why the white working class just voted overwhelmingly against its own economic interests, not pretend that a bit more populism would solve the problem. Paul Krugman