working classes

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May Day, which celebrates workers and the working classes, sees a major police deployment in Turkey every year, with a large area in the heart of Istanbul around Taksim Square sealed off.

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

Of these culturally Muslim, rural working classes often credited with wanting a theocracy, my mother says “they just wanted someone to give them their rights. The only thing that united them was basic human needs.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

He saw how the epidemic disproportionately impacted the poor and working classes, while those in the upper echelons of society, including his family, remained relatively unscathed.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2024

So there was this pressure brought both internally. from the disaffected working classes, and externally.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2023

He was most popular with the working classes in Kenosha, and when his body was taken to the morgue hundreds of men and women stood with uncovered heads while it passed.

From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various