How To Use Working-class In A Sentence

Pat came from a working-class Catholic family in Denver, where her father had worked as an electrician.
Like the soapbox speakers, the cafeterias offered working-class people places to debate and discuss a wide range of issues.
On Thursday, police say, 23-year-old Wellington Oliveira talked his way into his former elementary school in a working-class western outskirt of Rio de Janeiro and opened fire with at least one of two revolvers he carried. Brazil Mourns the 12 Killed by Gunman
Willis also skips over the secular and leftist politics that led Catholic ethnics and working-class voters to take their distance from liberalism and the Democratic Party in 1972.
In the early nineteenth century, as earlier, most British working-class women made their families' clothes, from cotton calicoes for dresses and shirts, and from fustian for trousers and jackets.

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Some middle-class voters have supported the Labour Party and about one-third of working-class voters have traditionally cast their ballots for Conservative candidates.
For three years or so the squares lay open, and their sacred turf was trodden by the feet of working-class children, a sight to make dividend-drawers gnash their false teeth.
She came from a good, honest, working-class background.
Inpart, this is due to the higher profile of socio-legal agencies on working-class housing estates where the user is more visible.
All these conditions make for a higher incidence of illness among working-class than middle-class babies.
Working-class and middle-class mothers of Cuban heritage were questioned about their modes of accommodation to America in terms of language proficiencies.
In the working-class saloons that lined the roughest sections of late nineteenth-century Chicago, refusing a man's treat violated rules of plebeian sociability and thus frequently triggered brawls.
And the genuine fusion of Marxism with the working-class movement was reflected in the changing social composition of the party.
A Los Angeles artist who gave that city's art establishment a bursting sense of pride for having nurtured such an obstreperous talent, he earned his celebrity status in part by retaining the obsessions and wounds of a smart Catholic working-class kid from the suburbs of Detroit who had never entirely assimilated to his sun-splashed California home. How Will the Future Judge Him?
We would be reading saddened investigations into the culture of bladder control in the English game and the working-class society that underpins it. Times, Sunday Times
His working-class origins and his experience as a manual labourer allowed him to bring a practical understanding of the industrial world to his studies. Times, Sunday Times
With Raising Hope, Greg Garcia captures a smart take on the working-class family with a great mix of wild comedy and a big dose of heart," Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly said in a statement. Fox Picks Up Raising Hope For Full Season
Magazines of the day published architectural plans for craftsman bungalows that were affordable to working-class as well as middle-class families.
It was she who guided my every step in the working-class movement.
They succeeded only because of the wider social context of working-class incorporation.
For Trotsky the f-word was a sign of slavery, the sigh of the oppressed, but for Steven Berkoff it is ‘a sign of passion’, a mark of working-class resistance to an effete and effeminate middle class.
In so doing I depart somewhat from studies of working-class involvement in the formal political sphere during the twentieth century.
These photographs capture the essence of working-class life at the turn of the century.
He paints a very romantic image of working-class communities.
Considerable skill was required in the making of corduroy, working-class fabric or not.
Payment for councillors might also persuade more working-class representatives to come forward.
The political literature of the nineteenth century was full of references to class, and in particular nervously raised the possibility of unchecked working-class political power. Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
He is a galumphing, white academic from working-class London who somehow wound up a Rembrandt scholar.
This year it proclaimed the housing shortage as the major challenge to poor and working-class communities in the Bay Area.
With some exceptions, strong regional or Spanish accents are associated with working-class status.
I think it's important to read because it makes clear that he's not some effete urbanite like me: he's a sober heartland working-class American who knows whereof he speaks.
Macho characters portrayed by Marlon Brando and James Dean were fleshed out with brazen working-class energies in their American T-shirts, until then seldom worn uncovered save by laborers. The English Is Coming!
It would be easy to site new English grammars in deprived areas and encourage primaries to prepare a working-class intake for the test. Times, Sunday Times
From a very early age, lower-working-class boys engage in rough, exclusively masculine forms of play, free of adult supervision.
I was brought up in a working-class family. Times, Sunday Times
But at the same time another pressure is being applied to the least gifted children from working-class homes.
One of the more memorable scenes in the book, at least for me, has Smith observing a working-class woman whistling a tune while hanging out the washing.
What this criticism draws attention to is the bitter truth about teachers' exclusive concentration upon creativity with working-class pupils.
Only in the twentieth century did skilled workers in Colombo begin to organize along working-class lines.
Still, a lively, big-hearted tale, drenched in gritty working-class ambience. Traveler by Ron McLarty: Book summary
This romance is duly mirrored in working-class politics - miners are the Clark Gables, the Reds of class struggle.
Obama's silver tongue highlights his elite education, while Sarah Palin's inarticulateness confirms her working-class bona fides. Obama and the Democrats must reconnect with working-class voters
In a word, Liz will be quite a commonplace, average girl of the lower working-class…
He came from an aspiring working-class background.
So you might wonder why I should be so interested in white working-class youth. Times, Sunday Times
The DUP, while representing the farming constituency, also lays claim to a sizeable chunk of support from working-class Protestants.
She was a pioneer in the development of working-class housing in the second half of the nineteenth century.
We were a working-class family and my mam and dad didn't have a whole lot of money. Times, Sunday Times
Yet community education in working-class communities has not grown to offer a radical alternative to traditional adult education provision.
The socialist party is expected to scoop up the majority of the working-class vote.
For instance, although much working-class history has emphasized the importance of the mother, the experience of illegitimates makes it dear just how crucial the relationship with the father was for children.
They had invented a new social custom but they had also annexed a significant part of the working-class experience.
While upper-class dueling had become rare by the 1840s, highly ritualized forms of working-class fighting continued throughout the century.
The Maritime Province was both the temporary home for working-class compatriots from the homeland and the base for patriots residing abroad.
This sentiment was repeated a few years later by the Newsom Report in relation to average ability working-class adolescents.
The group is mainly black, mainly working-class.
This change puts at greater risk those working-class boys and girls who fail to acquire any such paper qualifications.
A diffuse, volatile blend of everything from anarchism to religious millenarianism, it continued to mark working-class movements up to and including Chartism.
Stumbled in two hundred years from forests and woodland tribes, to farms, to a working-class city of machine tool and tire factories. THE SHIPPING NEWS
Various authors have suggested or claimed that working-class women are satisfied with housework while middle-class women are not.
The most proletarian working-class of markets with none of the flashy glamour of Petticoat Lane. COFFIN ON THE WATER
Ringway One was an inner ring road running largely through working-class areas of housing stress.
Churches, unions, parties, bourgeois conventions, working-class and peasant cultures no longer furnish models which all are obliged to observe if they do not wish to be ostracized.
When the British working-class built up Australia they chucked away a lot of the tight-arsed inhibitions that make Britain the country it is.
This is what happens when men with too much money, education and nose hair try acting like working-class Loaded young bloods.
Payment for councillors might also persuade more working-class representatives to come forward.
The gravity of the economic situation meant that the appeasement of sectarianism was not sufficient to deal with the threat of working-class disaffection.
They lacerated him for saying he wanted the Democratic Party to reach out to working-class Southerners who drive pickups bearing Confederate-flag decals.
Then the poetry establishment's outsized accolades gave them too big an idea of themselves, and they each turned into an image of what they were supposed to be like: Olds the intrepid forager among women's dirty little secrets, Graham the Old World philosopher-deconstructer of language, GlÃ¼ck the pithy celebrator of the domestic everyday event, Levine the working-class sage with no chips on his shoulders. Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship
In this predominantly male, working-class climate, the Salvationist vision stresses hard work, discipline and self-transformation in service to others.
One of its big secrets is that it is working-class sport performed by world-class performers. The Sun
Yet community education in working-class communities has not grown to offer a radical alternative to traditional adult education provision.
This has not consisted simply of middle-class reformers defining the working-class family as problematic, for which there is a long tradition.
Born in Wakefield, Taylor may be a down-to-earth working-class northerner, but she went straight to college from school, trained as a hairdresser, became a successful stylist, was promoted to training apprentice stylists, and later ran a charity, before becoming a highflyer at A4E. Hayley Taylor: 'I've felt what the unemployed feel: losing confidence, staring at four walls'
And West Ham was not the only predominantly working-class area that gave rise to a political authority seemingly remote from popular allegiance.
In La Commune, the actors, many residents of working-class neighborhoods not dissimilar from the ones that bred the Communards, break character to discuss their roles. He Saw It Coming
Traders, industrialists, and working-class consumers had every reason to complain that they were paying heavy taxes to support idle rentiers who had invested in the national debt.
men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity
I can't stand namby-pamby wimps; it's my working-class background.
He came from a respectable working-class background - he felt shamed by her accusation. Times, Sunday Times
In near future Tokyo, on working-class misfit is training the other to be a judo fighter. Weekly Mishmash: November 1-7 : Scrubbles.net
The relative autonomy of law has to be constantly maintained by successful working-class mobilization into politics and the labour movement.
As Horowitz puts it, “In numerous unexamined ways, the budget studies” undertaken by progressives “attacked immigrant and working-class culture, hoping to replace it with the bourgeois emphasis on self-help and personal discipline.” A Renegade History of the United States
The naturalness and energy in Fields' performances made these films popular with both middle-class and working-class audiences.
In working-class areas, neighbours similarly look after each other's offspring.
Recruited from the strongest and healthiest of the working-classes, it is above all indispensable that the Chinese letter-carrier should not be afraid of any ghostly enemy, such as bogies or devils. Historic China, and other sketches
They've got a snooty superior liberalist attitude to the working-classes and conservatives alike.
The Co-operative movement was a form of mutual aid with a wider working-class appeal although it also largely excluded the poorest.
The College has provided an important forum and resource for a wide variety of groups and individuals from working-class backgrounds.
Both my parents came from working-class backgrounds. Times, Sunday Times
Lindsay-Abaire, who won a Pulitzer Prize for "Rabbit Hole," his absorbing study of a grieving family that became a movie with Nicole Kidman, is working in a more acerbically comic vein in "Good People," the story of McDormand's Margaret Walsh, a hard-luck single mom and lifelong denizen of heavily Irish working-class South Boston. In New York, 'Good People' a sign of hope for this theater season
Communities such as Bensalem and nearby Bristol are home to some of the white, working-class voters who have become a crucial constituency for both candidates but largely have gravitated to Sen. Clinton. Both Democrats Find
The official criminal statistics present a picture of crime as being predominantly a working-class phenomenon.
He found “a substantial ground of truth in the indictment” of working-class Americans as “improvident and apparently incompetent to take care of the pecuniary details of their own life.” A Renegade History of the United States
She soon became resentful of her entrapment within a working-class community where she never felt at home.
Today's assault on working-class degeneracy only confirms how degenerate the political and cultural elite has become.
But now we find a large-scale re-sorting of people among cities and regions nationwide, with some regions becoming centers of the creative class while others are composed of larger shares of working-class or service-class people.
The second survey was concerned with working-class culture more generally.
Opposition to shopping grew especially severe during World War I, when bourgeois disgust over the new working-class culture took the form of well-organized campaigns against drinking, prostitution, and venereal disease, and in the moral condemnation of working-class spending habits. A Renegade History of the United States
And there is something very patronising about people with posh accents telling working-class people that their windows are too dirty.
‘My daughter goes to a fairly hard-core working-class school and every morning, I see guys kissing their weans, telling them how much they love them, and sending them on their way,’ says Mullan.
Yet a leftish middle-class hegemony is far from the whole story; the area has always had a strong working-class presence that has uneasily coexisted alongside its louder and newsier monied neighbours. The London comprehensive that's schooled Labour's elite
The common political stance is to represent the fundamental interests of the working-class and broad masses and to have as the essential tenet whole-hearted service to the people.
In the pre-punk 1970s, before working-class chic peaked, hipsters at art school would have out-posed middle-class Ruby.
This indicator must be a characteristic that is easily identifiable, and which clearly distinguishes working-class students from others.
Kayla is also refreshing as a flawed, normal working-class girl who as the heroine has stumbled into the supernatural world and must survive without any powers or special abilities. “The Last Angel” by Natasha Rhodes
The statistics show that recorded crime is predominantly working-class.
The Bulldogs, based at Belmore in a tough working-class area south-west of Sydney wanted to move to a Liverpool suburb.
Even though he was raised in working-class 'burbs, he acquired a hint of Main Line lockjaw.
This could be Pat Buchanan, beating the drum of working-class Republicanism.
At stake for Mr. Obama are the white working-class voters in Rust Belt states such as Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania who have been hit hard by the long-term decline in U.S. manufacturing. President Visits Union Strongholds
The Tories have also put on their blinkers, choosing fewer candidates from working-class origin and fewer Etonians.
They were a statement of working-class identity and a form of resistance to the hegemonic cultural values of the ruling class.
Younger black families were moving up from Watts and settling by working-class white families newly arrived from the South and the Midwest.
Skinheads = f**kheads unless you're talking about the original bluebeat / ska crowd, which consisted of black Jamaicans and white working-class UK kids both. Toytown Germany - Germany feed
Football, on the other hand, takes working-class people and drops them into enormous tubs of money, interviews them constantly and then abominates their lack of taste and inarticulacy.
If we can't take pleasure and satisfaction in concretely helping middle-class families and working-class families save money, get a college education, get health care -- if that's not what we're about, then we shouldn't be in the business of politics. Obama to Dems: 'Guys, wake up here.'
All the resolution needed for maximum impact, I thought, was to have its sharp working-class rhetoric muted.
People with working-class backgrounds should be able to get through, but they are priced out now. Times, Sunday Times
He look at the conflicting imperatives of his working-class background and his middle-class present. Times, Sunday Times
The British Empire Medal BEM, described as the working-class gong, is to be revived as David Cameron reverses one of John Major's signature reforms that was designed to create a classless society. David Cameron revives the British Empire Medal
Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance. Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood
Moira seemed to think that since I wasn't a black, working-class musician then I could have nothing to offer Jett.
Even when gambling became above board in the eyes of the law, it was still frowned upon as either the pastime of high-rolling decadent playboys or the ruin of feckless working-class punters.
The major political parties, the Conservatives and the Liberals, were increasingly aware of the need to compete for working-class support.
For McGovern, as for Alby, these myths showed the politically-motivated animalisation of working-class groups by governments since the 1984-5 Miner's Strike - indeed, the metal fences which contributed to the disaster were introduced to cage all football grounds in the period.
Yet what makes this a fine play is that Lamont Stewart neither sentimentalises Maggie nor treats working-class life as unrelievedly grim. Men Should Weep - review
I can't stand namby-pamby wimps; it's my working-class background.
These photographs capture the essence of working-class life at the turn of the century.
The son of an air-conditioning repairman, he grew up in the working-class Gun Hill section of the Bronx.
He could have chosen to do other, less famous people, and has done that on many occasions, such as dossers and other working-class figures.
Proudly working-class and self-educated, he quickly became involved with the developing labour movement.
In recent years, historians have paid closer attention to popular culture, especially non-religious manifestations of popular culture, such as working-class movements.
I loved her combination of cultured sophistication and working-class humor.
He was essentially a middle-class radical rather than a champion of the working-class claim to representation in parliament.
They are not concerned with working-class solidarity, anti-racism, human rights and democratic politics.
The lack of privacy in working-class homes, for example, was obviously a major determinant of mores.
The popular image of polka as unfashionable is often simply mockery of working-class folks.
Kale hardly mentions the working-class uprisings of 1848, which bring his narrative to a close.
The heroic battle for freedom is being fought almost exclusively by the Russian working-class under the intellectual leadership of Russian socialists, thus once more demonstrating the fact that the class-conscious workingmen have become the vanguard of all liberating movements of modern times. Revolution
He had a very hard life, did all the difficult jobs working-class men do.
He plays the working-class dance instructor at a Catskills resort, while she's the college-bound teen entranced by his charms.
Here Nonconformity defined Welsh working-class identity in relation to their English Anglican employers.
Born into a Labour-supporting family, with a Dublin-born father who was an upholsterer, he regarded himself as a working-class lad.
When these working-class allies tried to send a delegation to the capital, hostile railway workers shunted their train into a siding and left them stranded.
It would be easy to site new English grammars in deprived areas and encourage primaries to prepare a working-class intake for the test. Times, Sunday Times
Her accent betrayed her working-class origins.
The main victims were overwhelmingly ill-educated working-class boys and therefore expendable.
What does characterise many African/Caribbean students is that they are mainly from working-class backgrounds. Letters: Oxford access is coloured by class
My focus, however, will be on his brief foray into working-class education.
Working-class people sometimes face the choice between standing in line to vote and being docked an hour's pay.
Yet community education in working-class communities has not grown to offer a radical alternative to traditional adult education provision.
Nearly every Englishman of working-class origin considers it effeminate to pronounce a foreign word correctly.
Middle-class moralists might be ardent, even strident, but working-class patterns continued to be remarkably resistant and independent.
These are mainly working-class students. Times, Sunday Times
These will undoubtedly have been of great interest to my fellow white working-class fathers. Times, Sunday Times
He was a working-class lad from the north of England, blunt, plain-spoken, down to earth, and dead keen to get on in the world.
Clean, unwrinkled clothing is very important to urban working-class people.
Delinquency was theorized by some as a rejection and inversion of the middle-class values purveyed by the school and, by others, as a celebration of working-class values.
It was an aggressive assertion of a predominantly male, working-class integrity against incursions from middle-class intellectuals and foreign influence.
In Paris practice was not uniformly low, and was more regular in middle-class and aristocratic neighbourhoods than in working-class quartiers, where church construction lagged behind population growth and the clergy were scarcer.
In fact, a 1936 survey found that the WEA had created an articulate and obstreperous working-class intelligentsia.
No. I come from a working-class background but we always had money to put food on the table. Times, Sunday Times
Western militaries are typically small, professional organizations officered by the middle class and filled by working-class volunteers.
Consider This: Like Buddy, Bud’s image is formed by the literal meaning of the word buddy and by rural, working-class connotations. 5-Star Baby Name Advisor
Hare coursing is banned, though it's working-class. Masters of the Hunt
They were solid working-class guys who could just take it and remain lighthearted. James McBride discusses Song Yet Sung
Its modern depiction of everyday working-class life and its new approach to realism were inspired by Italian neo-realism and by the techniques used by Mazzetti's Free Cinema friends.
We are from a working-class family and we know what it is like to have something taken away from you. Times, Sunday Times
This whole business about which elite member of the political class can feign more of a working-class demeanor is becoming downright embarrassing. The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement
The relative autonomy of law has to be constantly maintained by successful working-class mobilization into politics and the labour movement.
Dickie Best has lived in the same modest terraced house on the same working-class estate for the past 50 years.
Terry remains an unreconstructed working-class man, revelling in the old macho drinking culture of the North East.
She saw her political and union commitment as grounded in a class consciousness developed during childhood in a poor working-class community.
On a recent Monday night in a working-class outskirt of Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Malafaia told some 3,000 worshippers spilling out of the aisles of his Assembly of God church that Ms. Rousseff had switched her abortion stance. Brazil Vote's Winners: Evangelicals
It's basically a working-class mindset, he said: ‘This showbiz lark can't last.’
Frank and Ronald were born 30 years ago to working-class Catholic parents in the wet flatlands north of Amsterdam.
In poor and more run-down areas there is more racial mixing, and working-class whites, blacks and coloureds are increasingly living in the same areas.
In the early nineteenth century, as earlier, most British working-class women made their families' clothes, from cotton calicoes for dresses and shirts, and from fustian for trousers and jackets.
What this criticism draws attention to is the bitter truth about teachers' exclusive concentration upon creativity with working-class pupils.
Terrorist movements have frequently consisted of members of the educated middle classes, but there has also been agrarian terrorism, terror by the uprooted and the rejected, and trade union and working-class terror. The Riddle of Terrorism
Working-class women who endured hardship and self-sacrifice and survived with something of themselves still intact.
To gauge the depth of white working-class cultural identification with the nation-state, one need not look any further than popular reactions to American military ventures since Pearl Harbor. A Renegade History of the United States
As a bright but unremarkable working-class child, she was crippled by shyness and self-doubt.
When the British working-class built up Australia they chucked away a lot of the tight-arsed inhibitions that make Britain the country it is.
The Loyalist working-class areas of Belfast suffer nothing like the level of social exclusion faced by the Roma.
Her working-class male counterpart is not usually ridiculed or disapproved of in this way, as some one whose language is inappropriate.
And West Ham was not the only predominantly working-class area that gave rise to a political authority seemingly remote from popular allegiance.
Rose Wortis was an Eastern European immigrant needleworker who devoted her life to working-class organizing and the Left. Rose Wortis.
In this movie though, it's formed out of an epicene husband and a working-class orphan who have cemented their bonds in her absence, in a tent on an overnighter in the dark forest, to the tune of hooting owls.
Pollsters have emblematized part of the crucial working-class swing vote as "Wal-Mart Women," defined as more socially conservative women who typically don't have a college degree, who are feeling the economic pinch and are shopping at Wal-Mart for its lower prices. 'Wal-Mart Women' Vote Remains in Play
Ringway One was an inner ring road running largely through working-class areas of housing stress.
The familiar precariousness of working-class life is only now hitting the middle classes.
Nor do fans see themselves as engaging in a kind of working-class resistance to the commercialization of football in any straight forward sense.
I came from a respectable working-class background. Times, Sunday Times
Without funds to match his rivals, Mr. Santorum is banking on a message that appeals to working-class conservatives who have shunned Mr. Romney, as well as his proven ability to outhustle the competition. A Bet on Message, Not Money
T.e revived interest in fried chicken speaks to a revived interest in regional foods and a revived interest in kind of glamorized working-class food," said food writer John T. Edge. Chron.com Chronicle
Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance. Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood
That's because it is not a tragicomedy about being old, but about the grief of settling into middle age, specifically the middle age of a married working-class man.
Its beleaguered working-class town is never identified, and that lack of rootedness is frustrating. Times, Sunday Times

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