working-class

lower class

noun[ S ]
I am from the lower class and I have never forgotten it.

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lower class
However, despite their negative characterizations of the wealthy, both novelists show the upwardly mobile lower-class woman ultimately placed with a man who represents wealth.
Thus, for this young woman menosprecio associated with lower-class people, markedly indigenous, who are 'not civilized'.
In the process, they ignore the interests of lower-class group members.
A closer look indicates that the lower-class and urban identity invariably assigned to it was also a major sticking point.
But in the past that participation had been limited almost entirely to lower-class women and the occasional elite female leader.
To the elite, women were among the most disturbing of these lower-class criminals.
However, the activity of such organisations was generally inhibited by the repression of groups articulating lower-class interests.
In the case of lower-class subjects - the strict definition of verismo - this impersonality assumes a special quality.
Remarkably, all are surprised to learn that it originated in working-class or lower-class communities.
These learners also distance themselves from the lower-class people who cannot afford private tutors.
To study lower-class people (subaltern, a term frequently used in this book), we often face the problem of where to find their voice.
With greater opportunities for lower-class participation and more emphasis on the power of preaching and the pulpit, there were marked contrasts, too.
For lower-class individuals, the solution is to exit the organisation, rather than voice opinions and alienate possible future resources.
Copper coins were used by the soldiers and the lower-class urban artisans.
The work portrays a lower-class young woman, one hand holding her child, the other clenched into a fist on her hip.
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