working people
Those with jobs
Working people are those who earn their living through labor, especially manual or hourly wage work rather than inherited wealth or investment income.
The phrase often carries political weight, evoking solidarity with ordinary laborers as distinct from elites: a candidate who fights for working people.
It overlaps with "working class" but sounds less clinical and more inclusive.
- pink collarWork typed as feminine
- employeeHired organizational member
- shop floorIndustrial production workspace
- sweatMoisture from skin pores
- breadwinnerPrimary household earner
full-timer · hands · nine to five · punch the clock · daily grind · tradesperson · unionist · union dues · rank and file · coworker · wage earner · producer · proletariat · taxpayer · common folk · freelancer · salt of the earth · laborer
working peopleleisure class
Wealthy non-workers
rentiers · trust fund babies · non-working · ladies of leisure · gentlemen of leisure
working peoplethe upper class
Wealthy, privileged social stratum
the elite · the rich · aristocracy · nobility · plutocrats
working peoplecapitalists
Owners of productive wealth
owners · employers · proprietors · industrialists · business owners
work, people, worker, working, works, workers, worked, workforce, workman