working-class
Meanings
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages;
- "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
- of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; - G.B.Shaw
- "party of the propertyless proletariat"
- working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries;
- "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor"