What is "working-class"

Usage examples of "working-class".

Before that, it was only frequented by bargees and the working-class people of Corbeil, who used to dance there on Sundays.

Republican elitists abhor demagogic appeals to working-class Democrats.

Like most working-class people, she harboured a fondness for the idea a woman of scarcely guilded beginnings who could rise to challenge, if only briefly, the might of the guilds.

Rabbit turns left on Fifth, past the post office and the Ramada Inn that used to be the Ben Franklin with its grand ballroom, which always makes him think of Mary Ann and her crinolines and the fragrance between her legs, and over to Eisenhower Avenue, above number 1204 where Janice hid out with Charlie that time, and takes an obtuse-angled turn right, heading up through the Hispanic section, which used to be German working-class, across Winter, Spring, and Summer streets with the blinding lights and occasional moving shadow, spics out looking for some kind of a deal, the nights still a little cool to bring out all the street trash, to Locust Boulevard and the front of Brewer High School, a Latin-inscribed Depression monument, ambitious for the common good like something Communists would put up, the whole country close to Communism in the Thirties, people not so selfish then, built the year Harry was born, 1933, and going to outlast him it looks like.

That did not include any of their co-religionists, who were probably working-class schlubs who walked or took public transportation.

Maigret to be far more genuine working-class Montmartre than Place du Tertre, which had become a tourist trap.

Clearly she must be another than the thriftless, shiftless creature too common in working-class homes.

Jules Guesde, while personally Dreyfusard, opposed party action as an effort diverting working-class strength from a cause not its own.

I could never date someone who made a living defending the likes of Peter Hargrave against the working-class slobs who are just trying to be treated fairly.

Mostly men, working-class Lyonnaise by their looks, with the dulled skin of people who have not eaten properly in years, dressed in new drab issue-clothing of the same sort she was wearing.

Soviet Politbureau rejects allegations emanating from Washington and Bonn that they have in any way involved themselves in the struggle by the working-class peoples of he United Kingdom against the resurgence of fascism in hat country.

Unlike in the United States, where the Russians seemed to hang out in such working-class neighborhoods as Brighton Beach in New York, the Mafiya was apparently situated in pricier digs here.

She, on the other hand, had grown up in a small, working-class town in Pennsylvania and had made it through far less prestigious schools on scholarships, loans she was still repaying and various unpleasant jobs.

Deek laughed, and slapped Skif on the back, as they turned a corner and entered a working-class neighborhood where they could leave the alleys and take to the streets.

It wears the garments of a working-class male, although its hips and breasts make the pretense transparent.