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

"I think we're on the right path, but the middle and working classes are suffering too much."

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025

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

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2023

His later years were chiefly devoted to the promotion of the co-operative movement among the working classes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various