Dictionary

working-class en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to the working class; suggestive of the working class in manner of speaking, outlook, appearance, or other qualities.
   • We're also witnessing the passing of something even more profound - a culture of working-class masculinity that has become an anachronism in the modern world. 2009 May 20, Margaret Wente, “We are witnessing the passing of working-class masculinity”, in The Globe and Mail, archived from the original on 27 May 2009:
   • It was a very working-class crowd on the Kop, mainly dockers and the like. 2001, Stephen Hopkins, Cathy Long, John Williams, Passing Rhythms: Liverpool FC and the Transformation of Football, page 27:
   • One of the areas in Hong Kong most profoundly impacted by the city’s third wave of coronavirus is Tsz Wan Shan. The usually bustling streets of the working-class neighbourhood in Kowloon now resemble a ghost town. Tsz Wan Shan has been the epicentre of a recent cluster of Covid-19 cases. 2020 August 18, “Empty spaces in Tsz Wan Shan amid Hong Kong’s third wave of coronavirus”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2021:
   • There is one obvious sense in which working-class politics has declined in the last twenty years or so: the proportion of working-class people involved at various levels of party politics has dropped. 1971, Barry Hindess, The Decline of Working-Class Politics, page 9:
   • But Run Run Shaw and his brothers are sons of a Shanghai textile magnate, Lee Shau-kee comes from a wealthy banking and gold trading family from Shuntak county in Guangdong province, and Henry Fok - though from a genuinely working-class background - was set apart by a British government scholarship to an elite school. 2007, Joe Studwell, “How to be a post-war godfather”, in Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, 1st American edition, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 55:
   • Jean-Baptiste ordered herb soup, potatoes, and cheese along with two glasses of beer — a typical working-class lunch, he said to Aimee with a smile. 1986, Theresa Conway, A Passion for Glory, page 78:

Forms

Deriveds

working-classize

Synonyms

blue-collar (relating to working class)

Translations (2)

fi työväenluokkainen (relating to the working class) · pl z klasy robotniczej (relating to the working class)