working classes
Example Sentences
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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
"Call the Midwife will always be a drama for me about women and the working classes," she tells the BBC.
From BBC • Dec. 26, 2024
So there was this pressure brought both internally. from the disaffected working classes, and externally.
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2023
Mr. Channing was early attracted to the bearings of the spiritual philosophy on the problems of society, the elevation of the working classes, the rescue of humanity from pauperism and crime.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
