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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Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2024
Other tweaks, like Sloane’s building attraction to both halves of a local working-class couple, have more of an eye toward injecting active plot into what would otherwise be a static portrait.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
Arlie Russell Hochschild, TIME, 12 Sep. 2024
Members of the Order of St. Luke made up many of her early clients, but so did people in Black Richmond’s working class.
—Victor Luckerson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Sep. 2024
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Adjective
Sure, but in the working-class immigrant community of MacArthur Park, problems exist in large part because promises have not been kept.
—Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2024
Other tweaks, like Sloane’s building attraction to both halves of a local working-class couple, have more of an eye toward injecting active plot into what would otherwise be a static portrait.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
Noun
Sadly, the wood kindling this fire—burning slowly in the declining white working class since the 1970’s—is shame.
—Arlie Russell Hochschild, TIME, 12 Sep. 2024
Members of the Order of St. Luke made up many of her early clients, but so did people in Black Richmond’s working class.
—Victor Luckerson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Sep. 2024
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“Working-class.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/working-class. Accessed 17 Sep. 2024.
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