workingman

[ wur-king-man ]

/ ˈwɜr kɪŋˌmæn /

a man of the working class; a man, whether skilled or unskilled, who earns his living at some manual or industrial work.

Origin of workingman

First recorded in 1630–40; working + man¹

See -man.

We find the American workingman bound by the law, as I have said,—everything taken from him.

Industrial Conspiracies |Clarence S. Darrow
Why is this right, which is at bottom the right of property itself, denied to the workingman?

What is Property? |P. J. Proudhon
But Transome's neither Whig nor Tory; he's the workingman's friend, the collier's friend, the friend of the honest navvy.

Felix Holt, The Radical |George Eliot
A workingman enrolling in a syndicat is not entering a party, not subscribing to a platform, nor accepting a creed.

Syndicalism in France |Louis Levine

If one knocks out the tooth of a workingman, he shall pay of a mana of silver.

Archology and the Bible |George A. Barton