See working-class on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1971, Barry Hindess, The Decline of Working-Class Politics, page 9:",
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"ref": "1986, Theresa Conway, A Passion for Glory, page 78:",
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"ref": "2001, Stephen Hopkins, Cathy Long, John Williams, Passing Rhythms: Liverpool FC and the Transformation of Football, page 27:",
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"ref": "2007, Joe Studwell, “How to be a post-war godfather”, in Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, 1st American edition, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 55:",
"text": "But Run Run Shaw and his brothers are sons of a Shanghai textile magnate, Lee Shau-kee comes from a wealthy banking and gold trading family from Shuntak county in Guangdong province, and Henry Fok - though from a genuinely working-class background - was set apart by a British government scholarship to an elite school.",
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