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Meanings of labour classes in English

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Usage of labour classes in English
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He goes in to represent the labour classes.
Dubliners
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Labouring classes poor, because they are numerous.-onthe moral happiness of the.
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
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All we want is to see wealth spread among the labouring classes.
Essays on Political Economy
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Hence extreme poverty is very common among the labouring classes in this country.
The Voyage of the Beagle
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The wages paid to the labouring classes were then very low.
The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer / With an Introductor...
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How far this increased wealth benefited the labouring classes is a moot question.
England under the Tudors
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Lawrence, also a popular member of Tammany, rallied the mechanics and labouring classes.
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
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Large portions of the labouring classes not only enjoyed comfort, but commanded luxury.
Endymion
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This bears cruelly on the labouring classes and all who are paid in copper coin.
Persia Revisited
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Shortly after this time there was a great deal of distress among the labouring classes.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
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The members belong principally to the labouring classes.
Thrift
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It was believed by many that Mr. Gould made his fortune out of the labouring classes.
T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him
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Except that if it's the labouring classes who are rising, we ought to shoot the croupiers.
Mufti
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Is it well for a country to lose its labouring classes, its frugal, willing, and hard-working manhood?
The Waters of Edera
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In such countries, scarcely any degree of general affluence would enable the labouring classes to eat animal food.
An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of ...
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He had very little experience of such things save in the rude form they take among the labouring classes.
A Tale of a Lonely Parish