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working class

noun as in laborers

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"In retrospect, I can see that being Scottish and having the working class upbringing I had was a big bonus for me in many ways," says Caton-Jones.

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“The polling showed that Mamdani actually lost the working class and won the higher socioeconomic demographics.”

It was asserted, even, that American slaves enjoyed better living conditions than the backward English working classes.

The party not only lost the White House last year but also both chambers of Congress, every battleground state and even some support among key demographics including working class, racial minorities and young voters.

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That relentless pressure from an organized working class “raised real wages and created a set of fringe benefits, including health insurance and retirement pay,” he says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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