working class

Noun

 * 1) The social class of those who perform physical work for a living, as opposed to the professional or middle class, the upper class, or others.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: werkersklas
 * Arabic: اَلطَّبَقَة اَلْعَامِلَة
 * Armenian: բանվոր դասակարգ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 勞動階級
 * Czech:
 * Danish: arbejderklasse
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: laboristaro
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: clase traballadora
 * Georgian: მუშათა კლასი
 * German:
 * Hindi: कामगार वर्ग
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: lucht oibre
 * Japanese: 労働者階級
 * Kazakh: жұмысшы табы, жұмысшылар
 * Khmer: វណ្ណៈពលករ, វណ្ណៈកម្មករ
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: Çîna karker
 * Latvian: strādnieku šķira
 * Macedonian: рабо́тничка кла́са
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: arbeiderklasse
 * Nynorsk: arbeidarklasse
 * Persian:
 * Polish: klasa robotnicza, klasa pracująca
 * Portuguese: classe trabalhadora, classe operária,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: clas-obrach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ра̑днӣштво
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: clase obrera
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: uring manggagawa
 * Turkish: işçi sınıfı
 * Ukrainian: робітничий клас
 * Vietnamese: giai cấp công nhân (階級工人), giai cấp vô sản (階級無產)
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: אַרבעטער־קלאַס

Adjective
(usually working-class before noun)



Usage notes
The term working class is often used according to cultural rather than strict socio-economic criteria. It can be politically charged or neutral. Similarly, it can be derogatory, neutral, or positive.