( working classes)
The working class or the working classes are the group of people in a society who do not own much property, who have low social status, and who do jobs which involve using physical skills rather than intellectual skills.
...increased levels of home ownership among the working classes.
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Working class is also an adjective.
...a self-educated man from a working class background...
The group is mainly black, mainly working-class.
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