workers

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members of the working class (= a social group that consists of people who own little or no property and who have to work, usually doing physical work, to get money):

He preached to anyone who would listen that the workers of the world were being abused by the wealthy.

He firmly believed that the workers would rise again.

A workers' revolt later that year forced the issue.

He spent his life defending the rights of the workers.