the working class

Example Sentences

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If we don’t tip service employees, it calls into question our respect for the working class and our commitment to decent, well-paid work.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026

“Additionally, today, him being here at a labor union and advocating for the working class and labor, I think, is very important.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

Mejia, a union organizer, ran on a platform of affordability for the working class, including increasing funding for child care and raising taxes on the highest earners.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026

British newspapers have rushed to offer support, invoking George Orwell’s descriptions of pubs as a haven for the working class and a sacral space for free thinkers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

My argument was that it was as undemocratic to specify that the leaders had to be from the working class as to declare that they should be bourgeois intellectuals.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela