lower class

Eliot would have been incapable of the kind of remark one comes on regularly in Woolf’s diary: “The fact is the lower classes are detestable.”

And when you pair it with the notion that poverty is a sin, it's also used as a justification to plunder the lower classes, when even groups of people are seen as natural resources.

"For the first time it was the Kenyan people - the working class and the middle class and the lower class - against the ruling class," says Mwangi.

Under Shell's control, it became a successful weekly guide to women who found themselves in charge of both a household and a budget to outsource the daily drudgery to the lower classes.

Doctors’ orders could be more harmful than beneficial, and hospitals were only for the lower classes, while the wealthy received medical care at home.