Working-class Sentence Examples

Carl was born into a working-class Jewish family in New York in 1934.

The film, which stars Ali MacGraw as Jennifer and Ryan O'Neal as Oliver, tells the story of a rich boy who falls in love with a working-class girl.

Cayce had an eighth-grade education, something that was not unusual for a young man from a working-class family at the time.

It was brought to the country by the French and became so popular, even a working-class Japanese woman invests in fine lingerie.

Wages vary greatly in different parts of Italy, according to the cost of the necessaries of life, the degree of development of working-class needs and the state of working-class organization, which in some places has succeeded in increasing the rates of pay.

Although in some industrial centres the working-class movement has assumed an importance equal to that of other countries, there is no general working-class organization comparable to the English trade unions.

Mutual benefit and co-operative societies serve the purpose of working-class defence or offence against the employers.

Labor legislation is backward in Italy, on account of the late development of manufacturing industry and of working-class organization.

The low level of wages in many trades and the jealousies of the Chambers of Labor and other working-class organizations impede rapid development.

Private institutions and working-class associations have striven to improve the intellectual conditions of the working classes.

Com posed mainly of elements drawn from the Left, and dependent for a majority upon the support of the subversive groups of the Extreme Left, the formation of this cabinet gave the signal for a vast working-class movement, during which the Socialist party sought to extend its political influence by means of strikes and the organization of labor leagues among agricultural laborers and artisans.

His mission as organizer and emancipator of the working class lasted only two years and a half.

In the case of small and irregular consumers, such as the inhabitants of model dwellings and flats inhabited chiefly by working-class tenants, coin-in-the-slot meters are much employed.

In 1896 he became vicar of Portsea, when his success in administering a large working-class parish led in 1901 to his nomination as bishop suffragan of Stepney in the East End of London.

The mass of the working-class population in the Protestant parts of Germany belonged to the Social Democracy, an inclusive term covering variations of opinion from the doctrinaire system of Marx to a degree of Radicalism which in England would not be considered a bar to a peerage.

The third part of the act deals with what is called in the act working-class lodging-houses.

On October 20th he spoke at Newcastle, on the 21st at Tynemouth, on the 27th at Liverpool, insisting that free-trade had never been a working-class measure and that it could not be reconciled with trade-unionism; on November 4th at Birmingham, on the 10th at Cardiff, on the 21st at Newport, and on December 16th at Leeds.

Cynical disregard for the world's working class led him into the pact with Hitler.

As wages rose, growing working class affluence reduced the absolute need for a self-help system.

This means mobilizing the working class across Europe around democratic demands, including agitation for a constituent assembly.

By the end of the decade a network of working class agitators and organizers existed across the industrial towns and cities of Britain.

Unemployment was a general experience for the working class as a whole and there was much more solidarity and mutual aid.

Clare wanted to keep a slightly austere working-class look to the house.

Few working class women would find the millionaire backers to pay their legal bills.

For some sections embrace a modern secular bourgeois or nationalist ideology, while other sections gravitate toward some form of secular working class response.

The ending of the Stalinist bureaucracy in USSR was not a defeat for the working class.

The trade union bureaucracy For nine days the working class was solidly behind the miners.

Only a combined uprising headed by the working class can achieve its aim.

For a few brief years the working class set about creating a socialist society.

The unfortunate fact is that working class consciousness in Britain is at a lower level than for decades.

Organs of working class struggle thereby become organs of the working class semi-state.

We are also told that ` the war marked the climax of the defeat of the Soviet working class ' .

In a working-class constituency like mine, this is a lifeline.

I think that the present working-class core of the German Communist Party constitutes that Marxist core which the German Communist Party needs.

The working class and the Communist Party were confronted not only by internal counterrevolution, but the intervention of 14 foreign armies.

Ernaux is concerned to expose the ways in which working-class life and cultural preferences have been systematically denigrated and denied validity.

There is some truth in the romantic view of warm, close working class community supported by mutual dependence.

Wages were also raised to head off the increasing working class discontent.

Above all, socialists would be making a fundamentally dishonest proposition to the working class.

The impasse of the bureaucracy created widespread disillusionment in the working class.

Top up fees are pricing working class students out of higher education.

Many successful entrepreneurs come from tough, working class backgrounds.

His first published poems were praised for their atmospheric evocation of working class life.

The Working Class Will stop fascism... Not The State!

Bernstein also viewed working class children as being unable to defer gratification.

Every weekend thousands of working class people escape the grime of the cities in search of clean, country air.

His working-class angst has been replaced with middle-class guilt.

Lenin did after all stress the necessity for working class hegemony in the struggle for a republic in Russia.

Social decay in Scotland tends instead to be concentrated in the white, mono-cultural, predominantly working-class ghettos of the peripheral housing estates.

It is therefore incumbent upon us to do all we can to remove barriers to working class unity.

For the next three years its chief concern was riding the rising storm of working class insurgency.

What attitude should the working class take toward the capitalist class and the bourgeois intelligentsia?

From these ideas of Marx and Engels developed the idea of socialist and working class internationalism.

The Labor Party is now irredeemable from the point of view of working-class people and socialists in particular.

Think of working class p e o p l e. And yes, thsoe who do menial, jobs in the background, unthanked.

Cantle's report is the first time in an official document that the white working class is identified as an oppressed minority.

A popular wall mural in working class Protestant areas draws an uncanny parallel with Marc Evans ' film.

It is a mainly working-class community, strongly nationalist with a history of high unemployment, and sectarian discrimination.

It has been responsible for mass arrests, torture, killings and the military occupation of working class nationalist areas.

A pity he did not see fit to nominate an appropriate secular, working class cause rather than one which promotes religious obscurantism.

For them the success or failure of the Soviet Union depended on the working class of other countries successfully overthrowing capitalism.

Genuine working class partisans want to see that vanguard organized.

Such a conflict of opinion cannot provide nourishment for other parties within the working class and among the toiling peasantry.

Those and similar works were read by working class radicals against a background of social privation, injustice and unrest.

They aren't lumpen proletariat or working class or middle class or bourgeois.

Its role then, and subsequently, was to act as a lightning conductor channeling working class radicalism safely to earth.

The Panthers did give formal recognition to the need for collective working class action.

The demand of the working class is for the democratic renewal of the whole society from top to bottom.

There is no need for working class leadership or militant republicanism.

The working class was the only resolute champion of democracy and vanguard of a democratic revolution.

Without science, there were only sectional working class political movements; only through scientific analysis could the general interests be laid bare.

I can remember when a working class woman would have been thought very snooty if she had a pram.

Our politics are based on the productive role of the working class and the power to transform society that it has as a result.

On their part, therefore, these workers have been forced to mobilize the solidarity of the whole working class.

The question now is to hammer home to the working class throughout the world what conditions are necessary i n order to form soviets.

Unfortunately, it's a process that can also force working class communities, close knit neighbors and poor squatters out of their homes.

They see every foul device of imperialist tyranny employed against them with at any rate the passive acquiescence of the British working class.

From 1915 onwards the Clydeside munitions workers had become the vanguard of working class resistance to the war effort.

We greet the Canadian working class and people with whom for thirty years and more we have shared weal and woe.

And here wis me thinkin ' mod wis a movement comprised ay working class folk.

Manufacturing suburbs of Tokyo and working class are the focus of her recent working class are the focus of her recent work.

The British working class will move - have no fear of that.

Three years later he was elected president of the Social Science Congress at Glasgow, where, on the 30th of September, he gave a striking address upon the discovery of means for raising the condition of the working class as the "true leverage of empire."

Are the wealthy purer of heart than the working class?

It has been argued that the newspaper pioneered popular journalism with its racy style aimed at an literate working-class.

The possibility of a gradual improvement in the condition Of the working class is a reactionary Utopia.

He says, âThe basis of our Socialist Revolution is in the working class.

They must put forward their own vision of a Europe of sovereign states, in which the working class plays the leading role.

Unfortunately, it 's a process that can also force working class communities, close knit neighbors and poor squatters out of their homes.

Connolly was one of the first theoreticians of the labor movement to come from the working class.

The creation of working class intellectuals helping to create counter hegemony to undermine existing social relations should be an SSP goal.

Naff had existed in working-class slang for at least 40 years by the time it became a vogue word in the later 1970s.

Manufacturing suburbs of Tokyo and working class are the focus of her recent work.

This neighborhood shows diversity because of the juxtaposition of residents from both the middle and working class.

Boy George was born George Alan O'Dowd on June 14, 1961, in Eltham, Kent, in the south of England, to an Irish, working class family.

For many breeds, especially the large breeds, working class breeds and fine-boned racing dogs, joint and hip problems surface as they age.

Top hats were still worn by the wealthy, but bowler hats were now seen on the heads of the working class men.

The basic hat pin used by the working class was a simple black bead attached to the long pin.

The dance became incredibly popular, spreading through the working class to the point where street barrel organs would inspire impromptu dances in the slums of the Argentinian melting pot.

The poor and working class wore clothing made of cotton, linen, or wool.

The working class loved them, youth loved them, and subcultures adopted them.

The show focuses on the inner workings and dynamics of larger, working class families with a strong matriarchal character at the helm of each family.

It is credited for its accurate depiction of working class life in northwest England, and is set in the fictional town of Weatherfield.

The program is a typical example of "kitchen sink" drama, in which domestic lives of working class individuals takes center stage.

Coronation Street consists of a row of working class homes, divided between a corner shop and a public house on each end.

The characters that live here are, likewise, interpretations of working class folk, whose dealings with community, family, religion and politics all provide fodder for the storylines.

Its storylines revolve around the working class residents of the street, topics that both endear and repulse viewers with their starkly accurate portrayals of real life events and relationships.

After the original story lines that revolved around a trio of women clucking about their neighbors, friends, and family, it was said that they were stuck in the '50s because of its distinctive view of working class life.

From there, the company moved on to insure working class people by going door to door to make the initial sale and then having a representative visit policyholders weekly to collect premiums, which cost between 5 and 10 cents per week.

The album defines Manchester as a Northern working class city, the band's haunting melodies focusing on themes of boredom and of disillusionment with the mundane 9-5 ethic.

I think this can be said for the Roses' obvious conflict between their working class Mancunian roots, and a desparation to get out of the city and become something bigger.

The company rolled out its line of scrubs and lab coats in an effort to appeal to the working class woman.

But its wealth historically came from the mines, and this led to the emergence of a tight-knit, highly combative working class.

That is, middle and even working-class women could look stylish without a big expenditure, so whereas movements towards more practicality and simplicity in clothes had been underway in the 1910s, they came to fruition in this period.