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- adjective of or pertaining to the
working class
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Examples
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But the phrase 'working-class' is the phrase I grew up with - and so much of the working-class thing is about thinking you're not allowed to do stuff.
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Kelley was born in Detroit on Oct. 27, 1954, to what he described as a working-class Catholic family which influenced his art.
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Kelley was born in Detroit on Oct. 27, 1954, to what he described as a working-class Catholic family which influenced his art.
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Kelley was born in Detroit on Oct. 27, 1954, to what he described as a working-class Catholic family which influenced his art.
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Pauline's relationship with her mother had become strained by the time she was 11, but she felt more affinity with her father, Arthur, a mechanic, whom she describes as "working-class and proud".
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The British Empire Medal BEM, described as the working-class gong, is to be revived as David Cameron reverses one of John Major's signature reforms that was designed to create a classless society.
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I’m what you’d call an infidel and my husband called working-class.
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Feminists were almost universally opposed to the new culture of young, working-class women.
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Opposition to shopping grew especially severe during World War I, when bourgeois disgust over the new working-class culture took the form of well-organized campaigns against drinking, prostitution, and venereal disease, and in the moral condemnation of working-class spending habits.
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When the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National War Labor Board reported in 1918 that on average, “wage earners and the low or medium salaried families” had more than doubled the percentage of their spending on items other than food, shelter, and clothing since 1875, government policymakers and intellectuals set out to establish a “minimum comfort” budget for working-class families that would be frugal and thus patriotic.
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