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

The ten pound Pom scheme targeted families and single women because of Australia's demand for labour and a bigger population, with the skilled working classes mainly taking up the offer.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2023

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

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2023

How could the working classes be refined, how could they have exalted ideas amidst such surroundings?

From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph