Synonyms for working class
work·ing class

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1. working classadjective

   Synonyms:
   blue-collar

2. working classadjective

   Relating to the working class; suggestive of the working class in manner of speaking, outlook, appearance or other qualities.

   Synonyms:
   blue-collar

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1. labor, labour, working class, proletariatadjective

   a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

   "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

   Synonyms:
   labour, labor movement, confinement, parturiency, undertaking, labor, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, project

   Antonyms:
   white-collar, upper-class, middle-class

2. propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collaradjective

   of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers

   "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw

   Synonyms:
   blue-collar, propertyless, wage-earning, working-class

   Antonyms:
   white-collar, middle-class, upper-class

3. wage-earning, working-classadjective

   working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries

   "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor"

   Synonyms:
   blue-collar, propertyless, wage-earning, working-class

   Antonyms:
   white-collar, upper-class, middle-class

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1. Kat Cammack:

   It is the blue-collar, working-class American that we are looking for, i want to see heart. I want to see moms elected to Congress. I want to see your blue-collar workers, your electricians, your contractors, your commercial sandblasters.

2. Yesen Nurbayev:

   Their Marxist extremism is just like Islamic extremism, they will compare themselves to the founding Marxists but those leaders thought about the whole Chinese nation, not just the working class.

3. Barack Obama:

   A lot of what drives bad race relations is scarcity in the working-class populations, we have all of these looming questions with globalization and downsizing. These are underlying structural problems.

4. Colin Marshall:

   We are disappointed that after a robust set of ‘ listening sessions ’ on the coal leasing program last summer in which thousands of people across the West Virginia, from working class Americans to governors, very clearly explained how important the coal leasing program is to their well-being.

5. Michael McAdam:

   The commemorations the government are doing are not for the people. Its for the select few, we're the working-class people. We're the only people who really care about this.