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• s  working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries
• s  of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers

• For his part, the normally couth and courteous Buckley turned tiger, depicting Moynihan as a fuzzy-minded liberal professor whose wild spending schemes would cost wage-earning .
• But now they too are sounding alarm bells about the threat illegal workers pose to ordinary wage-earning Malaysians.
• Better, she thought, a real prince, even a Cambodian one with concubines, than a mere wage-earning European.

• working-class
• propertyless
• blue-collar

News & Articles

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• Times, Colbert Tackle Fast-Food Strikes
  In the midst of continuing strikes, walkouts, and protests focused on the plight of minimum-wage-earning workers at fast-food franchises nationwide, more attention than before has been given to pointing out that "low-paid work in America is lower paid today than at any time in modern memory," a Times editorial asserts , adding that Congress could do more to bolster the workers' movement ...
  Aug. 8, 2013 - New York Magazine

Quotes

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• Theda Skocpol in Atlantic Online
  Almost all welfare states were built around the concept of a nuclear family, with a wage-earning man,says Theda Skocpol, a sociologist and political scientist at Harvard.