working class

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• Working-class — working class …   Dictionary of sociology

• Working class — is a term used in academic sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe, depending on context and speaker, those employed in specific fields or types of work.As with many terms describing social class, working class is defined and used in… …   Wikipedia

• working class — n [singular also + plural verb] BrE also working classes the group of people in society who traditionally do physical work and do not have much money or power ▪ Marx wrote about the political struggles of the working class. >working class adj… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• working-class — UK US adjective [before noun] ECONOMICS ► belonging or relating to the social group that consists of people who usually do physical work, and usually do not have much money or a very high level of education: »Most of our voters come from working… …   Financial and business terms

• working class — working classes N COUNT COLL: the N 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… …   English dictionary

• Working class — Working Work ing, a & n. from {Work}. [1913 Webster] The word must cousin be to the working. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] {Working beam}. See {Beam}, n. 10. {Working class}, the class of people who are engaged in manual labor, or are dependent upon it …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Working Class — Título Working Class Ficha técnica Dirección Xavier Berraondo Guion José Manuel Gómez, Xavier Berraondo Música …   Wikipedia Español

• working class — n. workers as a class; esp., industrial or manual workers as a class; proletariat working class adj …   English World dictionary

• working class — working class, adj. 1. those persons working for wages, esp. in manual labor. 2. the social or economic class composed of these workers. [1805 15] * * * …   Universalium

• working class — ► NOUN ▪ the social group consisting of people who are employed for wages, especially in manual or industrial work …   English terms dictionary

• working class — The working class is classically defined as that class which must sell its labour power in order to survive. This was essentially what Karl Marx meant by the proletariat . However, this is hardly a satisfactory definition for late twentieth… …   Dictionary of sociology