work·ing-class
ˈwər-kiŋ-ˈklas 
: of, relating to, deriving from, or suitable to the class of wage earners
working-class virtues
a working-class family
: the class of people who work for wages usually at manual labor
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Feb. 2025
Harrison did not seek another term after the 2024 election when Trump became the first Republican to win the popular vote in two decades and made modest gains with core Democratic constituencies — African Americans, Latinos and working-class voters, among them.
—Steve Peoples, Chicago Tribune, 1 Feb. 2025
Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
He’s also advocated for honing the party’s message to working class Americans and communicating through more mediums like podcasts, gaming platforms and others.
—Dana Ferguson, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2025
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Adjective
For example, just a decade after the emergence of the new urban working-class culture in the 1830s, Irish immigration transformed the workforces of northern cities.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Feb. 2025
Harrison did not seek another term after the 2024 election when Trump became the first Republican to win the popular vote in two decades and made modest gains with core Democratic constituencies — African Americans, Latinos and working-class voters, among them.
—Steve Peoples, Chicago Tribune, 1 Feb. 2025
Noun
Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust doesn’t do justice to West’s paranoia, yet its remoteness captures the liberal Hollywood apathy that no longer identifies with American domesticity and sees its own working class as existing merely to perpetuate ruling-class superiority.
—Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
He’s also advocated for honing the party’s message to working class Americans and communicating through more mediums like podcasts, gaming platforms and others.
—Dana Ferguson, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2025
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“Working-class.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/working-class. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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