A class of society or social grouping consisting of people who are employed for wages, esp. in unskilled or semi-skilled manual or industrial work…
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| 释义 | society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > working class (22) working class1757 A class of society or social grouping consisting of people who are employed for wages, esp. in unskilled or semi-skilled manual or industrial work… population1817 The working class. Obsolete. rare. proletaire1833 Economics. A person who is dependent on his or her own labour for subsistence; a worker. Cf. proletariat, n. 1a. Also figurative. proletariat1847 Politics. Wage earners collectively, esp. those who have no capital and who depend for subsistence on their daily labour; the working classes. labour class1848 = working class, n.; cf. labouring class n. at labouring, adj. compounds. industrial proletariat1871 the section of the proletariat that is employed in mechanical industry or manufacturing; the industrial working class. Subcategories:— one of (11) — quality or condition of (3) — one who adopts workerist values (1) — position of holding one's own dwelling (1) |
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