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• 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 — 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 — noun a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field • Syn: ↑labor, ↑labour, ↑proletariat • Derivationally related forms: ↑proletarian (for: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• working-class — adjective Date: 1839 of, relating to, deriving from, or suitable to the class of wage earners < working class virtues > < a working class family > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• working class, the — noun the social class that consists of people who do not have much money, education, or power and who work mainly in MANUAL jobs (=jobs that involve physical work) ╾ working class adjective: a working class background/family ─ compare LOWER CLASS …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• working-class — adj. Working class is used with these nouns: ↑background, ↑consciousness, ↑culture, ↑district, ↑electorate, ↑family, ↑folk, ↑hero, ↑home, ↑household, ↑immigrant, ↑ …   Collocations dictionary

• The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 —   …   Wikipedia

• the working class */ — UK / US noun the social class that consists of people who do not have much money, education, or power and who work mainly in manual jobs (= jobs that involve physical work) can be followed by a singular or plural verb • See: lower class, the… …   English dictionary

• family — I UK [ˈfæm(ə)lɪ] / US noun Word forms family : singular family plural families *** 1) [countable] a group of people who live together and are related to one another, usually consisting of parents and children: can be followed by a singular or… …   English dictionary

• Working tax credit — (WTC), is a component of the current tax credits scheme in the United Kingdom part of the system of means tested social security benefits. The related component of the scheme is the Child tax credit (CTC). Tax credits were introduced in their… …   Wikipedia

• Family and Kinship in East London — was a 1957 sociological study of how the urban working class lived as a community. The study was carried out in the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green, in the East End of London. The research was carried out by Michael Young and Peter Willmott …   Wikipedia