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working class

work·ing class (plural work·ing clas·ses)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. hourly workers: the part of society made up of people who work for hourly wages, not salaries, especially manual or industrial laborers ( often used in the plural )

2. Marxist proletariat: in Marxist theory, the proletariat or revolutionary class

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