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. Mickaela Bradford:

   Often, there's not the understanding that trans men are men and that nonbinary people are nonbinary people, and the needs of both of those categories and folks who are capable of pregnancy are often overlooked, so even before Roe v. Wade was overturned, folks were struggling to find reproductive care that was affirming of their gender identities, struggling to find accessible, affordable, safe reproductive care -- particularly folks who are Black, disabled, working class and living in the South.

2. Michelle Caruso-Cabrera:

   I am the daughter and granddaughter of working class Italian and Cuban immigrants, i am so lucky to have had such a wonderful career and I want everybody to have the opportunity that I've had. That's why I'm running.

3. Donald Trump:

   No issue better illustrates the divide between America's working class and political class than illegal immigration.

4. Mohamed Mechmache:

   Over the past 10 years, these 8 or 9 million people who live in these working class districts have had the impression of not being recognized as full French citizens but as French on the margins, that the republic has forgotten some of its children.

5. Qi Jianguang:

   The working class has not yet fully woken up.