working-class

Definitions

The social group consisting of people who are employed for wages, especially in manual or industrial work.

Relating to or characteristic of the class of people who perform physical labor and earn low to moderate incomes.

Examples

The documentary provides a poignant look at the daily struggles of the working-class families in the industrial town.

Many political movements throughout history have sought to improve the rights and conditions of the working-class population.

She grew up in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood where everyone looked out for one another.

Synonyms

blue-collar proletarian laboring manual industrial rank-and-file wage-earning

Antonyms

upper-class aristocratic elite wealthy bourgeois privileged high-born