| 1. | those persons working for wages, esp. in manual labor. |
| 2. | the social or economic class composed of these workers. |
| working class n. The socioeconomic class consisting of people who work for wages, especially low wages, including unskilled and semiskilled laborers and their families. work'ing-class' (wûr'kĭng-klās') adj. |
In the United States, the population of blue-collar workers, particularly skilled and semiskilled laborers, who differ in values, but not necessarily in income, from the middle class. In Marxism, this term refers to propertyless factory workers.
