working class

suomi-englanti sanakirja

working class englannista suomeksi

The class of those who perform physical work for a living, as opposed to the professional or middle class, the upper class, or others.

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(RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp)
(quote-book)|page=47|text=It may seem that the Met was a snobbish outfit, a betrayer of the egalitarian dreams of Charles Pearson, but in being one of the pioneers of working men's fares the company had helped to bring about a revolution that would allow the working classes to live in London. Cheap trains would supersede Gladstone's well-meant Parliamentary Trains.
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(quote-journal)|title=The Intellectuals and Socialism|journal=(w)|publisher=(w)|location=(w)|volume=16|number=3|doi=10.2307/1597903|page=417|passage=Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for an obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand.