How To Use Workingman In A Sentence
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I am well aware that the majority was a small one, but the vote marks the end of a long struggle, and disproves the contention that the English workingman is by nature an individualist.
The Menace of Socialism
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What we call the workingman, the day laborer, the mechanic, the mill hand, had no existence as classes.
A School History of the United States
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Freddie Drummond sat in the auto, quite composed, alongside Catherine Van Vorst; but looking out of Freddie Drummond's eyes was Bill Totts, and somewhere behind those eyes, battling for the control of their mutual body, were Freddie Drummond, the sane and conservative sociologist, and Bill Totts, the class-conscious and bellicose union workingman.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT
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This was natural in the initial stage of the Revolution, when class lines had not had time to reveal themselves, when the aspirations of the so-called united revolutionary front found expression in the diffuse program of a party that was ready to welcome equally the workingman who feared to break away from the peasant; the peasant who was seeking land and liberty; the intellectual attempting to guide both of them; the chinovnik (officeholder) endeavoring to adjust himself to the new regime.
From October to Brest-Litovsk
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Its fob chain, stretched across the workingman's waistcoat, became a new symbol of respectability.
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Or else get dressed and go out and find a seven o'clock opener, a workingman 's bar.
UNKNOWN MAN #89
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The revolutionist is no starved and diseased slave in the shambles at the bottom of the social pit, but is, in the main, a hearty, well - fed workingman, who sees the shambles waiting for him and his children and recoils from the descent.
Revolution
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COAL MONOPOLIST: I have a statistician who can prove -- he can prove anything -- that the workingman is a great deal better off than he ever was, that he makes more than I do, that small incomes are increasing and large ones decreasing, that there is no involuntary poverty, and that the workingmen could live on twenty-five cents each a day and buy up the United States with their savings, and --
White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor
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The term workingman can never be anything but a grammatical common denominator.
Youth and Egolatry
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Then, someone will fasten upon their liking for sports, and he will tell you about the racecourses and cricket grounds until you would imagine that the Australian ran races and played cricket for six days in the week, and looked a little bit after the sheep on the seventh; and then you will have others who will fasten upon the industrial question and tell you of a condition of affairs where the workingman is uppermost and rules, then you will have others who will tell you of the wonderful resources of Australia.
Australia: Political and General Conditions
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Most of his architectural work he entrusted to an enthusiastic builder whom he had known as a workingman at Beverley.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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They're bad enough here and this is called the workingman's paradise.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
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Nor can they be made to comprehend that the workingman is the uncrowned king of the industrial realm, and educated labor enthroned vitality; or that only freemen -- free to do or forbear -- work with genuine fidelity, and give to toil their highest endeavor.
The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion
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The JetBlue flight attendant, who blew a gasket and cursed out his passengers, chuted out of his plane and straight into mythic American status as a workingman's hero.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: When Psycho Flight Attendants Become Heroes
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Friedrich Engels, who fancied himself a champion of the workingman, regarded the Irish immigrant to Great Britain as having a "crudity" that "places him little above the savage.
The Right Coast
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The difference between the rich and the workingman is a trivial distinction?
Who Bears the Tax Burden?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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“Give the workingman the right to employment as long as he has health,” he said, “assure him of care when heis sick and maintenance when he is old, and the socialists will sound their birdcall in vain.”
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
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Nevertheless, on our last trip over I had this crazy idea I'd visit some London gun shops and find a great deal on a plain workingman's English double.
I Dream of English Doubles
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He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the Boulevard des Invalides, a man dressed like a workingman and wearing a cap with a long visor, which allowed a glimpse of locks of very white hair.
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It does not appeal to the workingman who has had his head broken by a policeman's club, his union treasury bankrupted by a court decision, or his job taken away from him by a labor-saving invention.
Revolution
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Or else get dressed and go out and find a seven o'clock opener, a workingman 's bar.
UNKNOWN MAN #89