Definition of "working class" []

• The socioeconomic class consisting of people who work for wages, especially low wages, including unskilled and semiskilled laborers and their families. (noun)

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• "Here there were two views in opposition to each other; one side acknowledged the newts as a new working class and strove to have all social legislation extended to them, regulating length of working day, paid holidays, insurance for invalidity and old age and so on; the other view, in contrast, declared that the newts were a growing danger as competition for human manpower and working newts were anti-social and should simply be banned."
• "‘You forget, the MacLeod roots are staunchly working class — I’m the renegade in a bunch of social reformers."
• "If wages were high, the number of workpeople would multiply; if wages fell, the numbers of the working class would decrease."