working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A generation ago public drinking was largely for working-class men. From Wordnik.com. [The New Booze Economy] Reference
Mowlam, 48, was born of working-class parents in the London suburbs. From Wordnik.com. [The Mo Show] Reference
One of six kids from a working-class family, Depardieu grew up on the street. From Wordnik.com. [SNAP JUDGEMENT: BOOKS] Reference
Maria Larsson (Maria Heiskanen) is the working-class wife of an abusive drunk. From Wordnik.com. [One ‘Everlasting Moment’: A Picture Within A Picture] Reference
A 60-year-old grandson of an Italian immigrant, he grew up in a working-class family. From Wordnik.com. [A Border War] Reference
The Gallaghers live in Brick Township, N.J., a working-class town with a well-known toxic landfill. From Wordnik.com. [Understanding Autism] Reference
The Band of Brothers were there, mostly working-class guys trying to be comfortable among the swells. From Wordnik.com. [Digital Dispatches] Reference
It's bad enough that the setting has moved from working-class England to Buffalo, N.Y., for no real reason. From Wordnik.com. [Crass Course] Reference
"I am more electable because I know what it's like to grow up in a working-class family," he told NEWSWEEK. From Wordnik.com. [Back to the Front] Reference
What Marshall is after is a kind of seriocomic panorama of working-class love and loneliness in the big city. From Wordnik.com. [Love Over Easy, Hold The Mayo] Reference
The kids at Carson High, in the working-class South Bay section of Los Angeles, are blurring as fast as they can. From Wordnik.com. [Color My World] Reference
Among them are the Levantine equivalent of Reagan Democrats: working-class Israelis who suffered from the reforms. From Wordnik.com. [The Prospect Of An Odd Couple] Reference
I will never forget the sight of her zigzagging through the streets of Dundalk, a working-class Baltimore neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: Are The Kennedys Still A Dynasty?] Reference
"If a working-class kid from London, who starts off as a nanny, can make it in the United States, anybody can," he writes. From Wordnik.com. [QUICK READ] Reference
Maya's periodic splurges infuriated her working-class husband, which led her to question herself and at times, her marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Female Trouble] Reference
Then -- oblivious to the sounds of the nearby freeway in Norwalk, a working-class suburb of Los Angeles -- she begins to paint. From Wordnik.com. [Even A Kid Could Do It] Reference
Chumbawamba got its start 15 years ago in the working-class city of Leeds, inspired by the anti-establishment ethics of punk rock. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchy From The U.K.] Reference
So based on the feedback, the show now has a storyline about a clinic for working-class townies where Feuerstein's character works. From Wordnik.com. [Bonnie Hammer’s Hit Factory] Reference
One building at a time, the Housing Authority is attempting to reclaim its property from the gangs-and attract working-class families. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Housecleaning] Reference
Lending small amounts of money, carefully and responsibly, to working-class people isn't a recipe for riches or grand executive living. From Wordnik.com. [A Risk Worth Taking] Reference
Krugman is an economist and I trust his forecast that things are going to get even worse for working-class Americans in the months ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Why Krugman Is Wrong] Reference
For now, it appears the Harvard M.B.A. man, Paulson, has bested Grasso, who was raised in working-class Queens, and didn't graduate from college. From Wordnik.com. [POWER PLAY] Reference
Yes, there was a former drug dealer from Boston, but alongside him was a prepschool student from Texas and a working-class white from South Boston. From Wordnik.com. ['Ask Not'--'90S Style] Reference
The only flab on this film is around the waist of its sybaritic hero, a working-class crook who has finally gotten a taste of the good life, and doesn't want to lose it. From Wordnik.com. [Suddenly Last Summer, Mate] Reference
It was a crossover pop hit, a red flag to feminists and an anthem for working-class women who felt their values and priorities held in contempt by the privileged and decadent. From Wordnik.com. [First Lady Of Nashville] Reference
"If working-class roots were the standard, we would have been deprived of the leadership of great presidents -- Franklin and Teddy Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy, to name three.". From Wordnik.com. [Back to the Front] Reference
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