Look up lower-class or lower class in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Lower class may refer to:
- Lower social class, those at or near the bottom of the socio-economic hierarchy; also known as the underclass, and may include many of those at the bottom of the working class
- American lower class, more specifically, the lower class in the United States
- Lower middle class, a sub-division of the middle class, just above the lower class
- Working class, those employed in blue collar, pink collar, and manual jobs; may encompass the lower class and the lower middle class
- Proletariat, the class of wage-earners in a capitalist society whose main material value is their labour-power; encompasses the working class and the underclass