Usage of "labouring class"

Russian

рабочие

Portuguese

classe trabalhadora

Spanish

clase baja

Catalan

classe treballadora

Social class composed of members of the society employed in lower tier jobs.

upper class

рабочие

Usage of labouring class in English

You will be amazed by some of the statements about the labouring class. 
 My Life and Work 

The condition of the whole labouring class is, so far, benefited. 
 Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy 

They seemed to have two social classes among them-thelabouring class and the warriors. 
 Across Unknown South America 

He had been persuaded that it would elevate the condition of the labouring class. 
 Coningsby; Or, The New Generation 

Mr. MacDonald has long cut himself off from the labouring class of his boyhood. 
 The Rise of the Democracy 

He who imputes vices to the labouring class, imputes them to his own class. 
 The Ancien Régime 

I still firmly believe that inexpensive engines can improve the lives of the labouring class. 
 Arrival (Stories of Your Life and Others) 

He who imputes virtues to his own class imputes them also to the labouring class. 
 The Ancien Régime 

Plato is not here advocating universal communism; his state postulates a money-making class and a labouring class also. 
 Authors of Greece 

I belong to the labouring class. 
 Adela Cathcart, Volume 2 

We who have been and still are a part of the labouring class know that the statements are untrue. 
 My Life and Work 

As they drove away from the station a dissipated-looking man of the labouring class waved his hat in friendly salute. 
 The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers 

He was clad in a suit of shiny black, such as folk of the labouring class wear at a funeral. 
 Allan and the Holy Flower 

All this wealth was made by plunder of the labouring class, and I shall hold it as trustee for them. 
 Demos 

It's the labouring class. 
 The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me 

What sort of working arrangements are our renascent owning and directing classes likely to make with the new labouring class? 
 An Englishman Looks at the World / Being a Series of Unrestraine... 