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class-conscious

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class-con·scious (klsknshs)
adj.
1. Aware of belonging to a particular socioeconomic class.
2. Supportive of class solidarity.

class-conscious·ness n.

class-conscious
adj
(Sociology) aware of belonging to a particular social rank or grade, esp in being hostile or proud because of class distinctions
class-consciousness  n
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Adj.1.class-conscious - (used of society) socially hierarchical; "American society is becoming increasingly stratified"
hierarchal, hierarchic, hierarchical - classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers; "it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art"; "in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first"
Translations
class-conscious [ˈklɑːsˈkɒnʃəs] ADJcon conciencia de clase
class-conscious [ˈklɑːsˌkɒnʃəs] adjche ha coscienza di classe
class-conscious [ˈklɑːsˌkɒnʃəs] adjche ha coscienza di classe


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Meanwhile, window after window in the high office building on the right had been opened, and the class-conscious clerks were raining a shower of office furniture down on the heads of police and scabs.
Chicago had always been the storm-centre of the conflict between labor and capital, a city of street-battles and violent death, with a class-conscious capitalist organization and a class-conscious workman organization, where, in the old days, the very school- teachers were formed into labor unions and affiliated with the hod- carriers and brick-layers in the American Federation of Labor.
 
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