The phrase "laboring class" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a specific social class that is made up of manual laborers or blue-collar workers. Example: The laboring class has been hit hard by the recent economic downturn, with many struggling to make ends meet.
In England, half of the population roughly was of the laboring class, people who did not own land and labored for others.
He believes that Göbekli Tepe was built by a laboring class, maybe even by slaves.
"I haven't done physical labor for a living in a long time, but, at heart, I suspect I'm still a member of the laboring class," he said.
I think he was more excited when I was hired by The Daily News in 1986 — it still had a reputation as the voice of the laboring class — than when I was later hired by The Times.
In the 1850s, newspapers in California complained that Chinese immigrants were the dregs of the laboring class, having "most of the vices and few of the virtues of the African". Yet by the 1960s, attitudes had completely flipped.
For the newcomers' respect for urban authenticity is quite evident as they strip away the neighborhood's signature Formstone insulation -- the laboring class's postwar touch of home improvement -- to get back to the original red-brick fronts on the classic row houses that are being snapped up.
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Another factor should be added: the abandonment of anti-immigration attitudes by intellectuals and the laboring classes.
"That point is further underscored by the decision in 1900 to open a separate Workingmen's Library for the city's laboring classes.
Built in the 1870s to provide "improved dwellings for the laboring classes," the Dickensian-looking walk-ups have airy units, exterior bluestone staircases and handsome ironwork.
A great many residents -- mostly the laboring classes -- are foreigners from Asia and elsewhere in the Middle East, and only a small handful have citizenship.
