Most of the money for the building was raised by the working-class Klan membership, but even more importantly, a significant amount of the funds arrived as secret donations from middle- and upper-class supporters. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The not-so-subtle message to working-class whites was that their tax dollars were going to support special programs for blacks who most certainly did not deserve them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He arrived at the station punctually just as the sun was filtering through the pine trees that still grew in thick groves in the white working-class neighborhoods south and east of Durham proper. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Each time, C.P. has campaigned for him in white working-class neighborhoods. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When World War II began, Gold was a twenty-eight-year-old chemist, living with his parents and younger brother in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The son of Irish immigrants, Michael had grown up outside of Philadelphia in a tough working-class neighborhood. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mass incarceration, like Jim Crow, was born of racial opportunism—an effort by white elites to exploit the racial hostilities, resentments, and insecurities of poor and working-class whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Not for the working-class child alone is adjustment to the classroom difficult. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She actually preferred to be among the poor, the working-class poor of the Red Hook Housing Projects in Brooklyn, the cement mixers, bakers, doughnut makers, grandmothers, and soul-food church partisans who were her lifelong friends. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shift in focus served to align the goals of the Civil Rights Movement with key political goals of poor and working-class whites, who were also demanding economic reforms. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It had been built in the 1950s and was designed as a co-op, meant to ease a post-World War II housing shortage for black working-class families. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Occasionally I went to house-rent parties, parties given by working-class families to raise money to pay the landlord, the admission to which was a quarter or a half dollar. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

One girl from a working-class family—Katie Brindle — sang in a choir after school. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

My other best buddy—who coincidentally had the same first name, but let’s call him Tommy—lived on the other side of the woods in a pleasant working-class neighborhood made possible by the GI Bill. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Our apartment was in a working-class, industrial neighborhood just a few blocks from my father's factory on Lipowa Street. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

We had rich white kids, a bunch of middle-class white kids, and some working-class white kids. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Hall was born into a working-class Catholic family in Christchurch, New Zealand, the youngest of nine children. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The colored folks ain’t all that different from the white working-class folks, since Tuesday is payday for the cowpokes as well and they're all up in the saloon spending what little they got. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Growing up in a working-class community and with a disabled parent, I’d learned that planning and vigilance mattered a lot. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In an effort to demonstrate their commitment to a genuinely multiracial, working-class movement against white elites, the Populists made strides toward racial integration, a symbol of their commitment to class-based unity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When he agreed to move out of the working-class neighborhood where he had been happy for years and to resettle in the middle-class apartment, he had said the same thing. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinary working-class Europeans would not have known who Mozart was either during his life or for a long time after it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The Second Reform Act of 1867 had given working-class men in Britain the right to vote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He will have, probably unconsciously, to oppose the ethos of the hearth, the intense gregariousness of the working-class family group. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Starting over in the same working-class neighborhood, Peralta and Zannikos quickly learned that New York was full of opportunities and obstacles, often in equal measure. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The young man settled in a working-class neighborhood, in a wooden shack that seemed like a palace to him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In earlier chapters, we have seen that throughout our nation’s history, poor and working-class whites have been bought off by racial bribes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Students were given course credit for work done in working-class neighborhoods. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may be analogous, in some respects, to the panic once experienced by poor and working-class whites faced with desegregation—the fear of a sudden demotion in the nation’s racial hierarchy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He sits in the seminar room—a man with brown skin, the son of working-class Mexican immigrant parents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d seen many examples in his practice, which was made up mostly of working-class African Americans. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They were big, tough, working-class young men, considerably older than his boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Nothing in the opinion or in the subsequent legal strategy made clear that segregation had afforded elites a crucial means of exercising social control over poor and working-class whites as well as blacks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For the most part, these gangs were loosely organized bands of young people from working-class neighborhoods in large cities. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

People in both parties have attributed the shift to the rise of social issues, like gun control and same-sex marriage, which have tilted many working-class voters rightward and upper-income voters toward the left. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A wave of compassion and concern could have flooded poor and working-class communities in honor of the late Martin Luther King Jr. All of this could have happened, but it didn’t. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He’d had many working-class white patients and some middle-class white women who thought he was handsome. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

By contrast, the working-class and poor children were characterized by “an emerging sense of distance, distrust, and constraint.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Many students came from working-class or poor families; Christine was one of the few at the school who did not receive assistance to cover the costs of tuition and board. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When the parent of one of the few black students at a white school complained that his child was marginalized, C.P. heard a white working-class student point out that he also felt marginalized. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was a bilingual child, a certain kind—socially disadvantaged—the son of working-class parents, both Mexican immigrants. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been a working-class black student at a fancy mostly white college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The scholarship boy pleases most when he is young—the working-class child struggling for academic success. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

White, working-class kids are as invisible in media and politics as the poorest toddlers in the worst slums. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poor and working-class whites in both the North and South, no less than African Americans, responded positively to the New Deal, anxious for meaningful economic relief. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This was a working-class church, a middle-class church. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Condemning “welfare queens” and criminal “predators,” he rode into office with the strong support of disaffected whites—poor and working-class whites who felt betrayed by the Democratic Party’s embrace of the civil rights agenda. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Though he was raised by an impoverished working-class couple—his foster father was a glazier—it turns out that his birth father was a general and his mother was an aristocrat. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Aside from the carbon-copy houses, there was nothing uniform about this working-class neighborhood; it was filled with people of all shapes, colors, and backgrounds. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

White women on campus proclaimed their sisterhood with working-class women. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were content, though, or as content as could be expected, and the neighborhood was tidy, working-class, full of families. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Conservatives in the 1970s and 1980s sought to appeal to the racial biases and economic vulnerabilities of poor and working-class whites through racially coded rhetoric on crime and welfare. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But the working-class child is usually least prepared for the change. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vast majority of these “anti” women were educated, married, wealthy white women, who enjoyed the privileges of their status without considering the practical problems facing poor and powerless working-class women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And this is not an argument that affirmative action has made no difference in the lives of poor or working-class African Americans—as some have claimed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was nothing remarkable about the small group; they looked like everyone else in the run-down working-class neighborhoods of East Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

By and large, of course, poor and working-class blacks merely wanted what whites wanted: decent housing, available only in “white neighborhoods.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The same skills he had once used to further the ends of the Ku Klux Klan he now employed in the service of working-class people of all races. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Typically most working-class children are barely changed by the classroom. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he said, many working-class students face obstacles they cannot overcome on their own. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Only some of the few working-class people in the alley still seemed excited when they heard the drums and gongs. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

You might say, Okay, but when has a working-class Indian-American girl with a kooky dadi and ripped jeans ever become a famous filmmaker? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But those broad gains mask the fact that poor and working-class students have nevertheless been falling behind; for them, not having a degree remains the norm. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

About 80 percent of his classmates were white, many of them Irish Catholic kids who came from outlying working-class white neighborhoods. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Computers have replaced automobiles for a certain tribe of working-class American tinker- ers who can never stop tweaking their machines and are constantly scrounging for new or used parts. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were a classic bunch of overachievers who had become living proof of all the perceived values of white working-class and middle-class America—desire, self-sacrifice, pushing oneself beyond the expected limit. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cooperation between students and staff and the focus on working-class issues were unusual, if not unique, among the campus protests of this era. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Teachers made me aware of D. H. Lawrence’s felt separation from his working-class father. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

C.P. understood the strategic value of cultivating new blood for the organization, but even more, he identified with the hunger many working-class white children felt for an organization such as the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This in itself is a change from the days when “college boy” was an insult in many working-class neighborhoods. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

These highly racialized appeals, targeted to poor and working-class whites, were nearly always accompanied by vehement promises to be tougher on crime and to enhance the federal government’s role in combating it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Blanca had organized a network for obtaining provisions through the black-market and her contacts in the working-class neighborhood where she went to teach ceramics to the women. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is this kind of guidance that distinguishes middle-class children from children of working-class and poor families, according to sociologists who have studied how social class affects child-rearing. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

These weren’t the heirs and scions of industry; these were working-class Americans. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In both cases, the racial opportunists offered few, if any, economic reforms to address the legitimate economic anxieties of poor and working-class whites, proposing instead a crackdown on the racially defined “others.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Priority should have been given to figuring out some way for poor and working-class whites to feel as though they had a stake—some tangible interest—in the nascent integrated racial order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Resentment, frustration, and anger expressed by poor and working-class whites was chalked up to racism, leading to a subterranean discourse about race and to implicitly racial political appeals, but little honest dialogue. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It is a poor and working-class neighborhood, and in the late 1990s, the drug trade in the area, particularly on Westchester Avenue and one street over on Elder Avenue, was brisk. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

For boys who were the sons of working-class parents, this was uncertain but intriguing terrain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Many of the girls in Troop 11 were from working-class, even poor, families— children of domestic servants, crab pickers, laborers—whose parents spent most of their waking hours trying to make ends meet. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

For the Romantic, this doesn’t make working-class life childish. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1890s, Populists buckled under the political pressure created by the Redeemers, who had successfully appealed to poor and working-class whites by proposing overtly racist and increasingly absurd Jim Crow laws. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

These working-class whites were envious of some of the fine houses owned by black in Sophiatown. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are the generation of working-class kids entering adulthood with heavy encumbrances. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the city, many schools mirrored the long and chaotic schedules of the children’s working-class parents. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Direct service is very important to me. It comes from my working-class background.” As Museums Become Her Ally, Suzanne Lacy Brings Her Activism Inside 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Labour housing ministers such as Yvette Cooper spent millions on consultants trying to demolish 19th-century streets in Merseyside and elsewhere, on the patronising grounds that old buildings were too good for working-class northerners. Excalibur's castles built from postwar dreams must not be demolished 2011-01-06T21:00:04Z

He writes, “It seems as though working-class people are the one group in society that you can say practically anything about.” Books of The Times: Get Your Bling and Adidas Tracksuit, Wayne, a British Class War Is Raging 2011-07-12T20:59:50Z

Giving working-class people the vote would, he stated, tempt them to pass "laws with respect to taxation and property especially favourable to them, and therefore dangerous to all other classes". The establishment uncovered: how power works in Britain 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

She said they were an intelligent bunch from Cambridge who did not fit the more typical mould of a working-class band. Photographer recalls early Pink Floyd gigs 2012-08-22T01:49:05Z

Her mother grew up in a working-class family in Detroit, discovering her gift for opera by singing along as her father played piano. Rebecca Hall’s Complicated Inheritance 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

PG: But did we give the impression that a white working-class guy struggling to find a job was something we didn’t respect? Samantha Bee and Jane Pauley Are Breaking the News 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

As human blood is to vampires, a child’s trauma is to these monsters. Whether they’re working-class heroes or vile predators depends on which side of the door you’re on. Pixar’s Monsters University: When Hairy Met Scary 2013-06-13T18:12:17Z

But my stereotypical notions of whiteness waned as I began to spend time around all kinds of white people, from public officials and police officers to working-class whites in my community. Wild myths I believed about white people: Notes on race, American ignorance and the Capitol riots 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

Mimi is a fortress of middle-class English propriety against the heavily Irish, heavily working-class landscape of Liverpool. "Nowhere Boy": John Lennon, before the Beatles 2010-10-08T11:01:00Z

My parents were no help: they were working-class to the core and had neither the inclination nor the money to help. Stammering: lost for words 2011-01-09T20:29:00Z

He has gone through periods of being uncool – but then McCartney is a working-class northerner in a London posh-boy dominated country and he has lived a long time. Paul McCartney at 70: Still at number one 2012-06-17T22:24:29Z

The actress plays Sandra, a working-class woman facing unemployment who pops Xanax all too frequently. Marion Cotillard: “Our society makes people feel useless” 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Cooke knows this better than most, having dared to take issue with what was perceived as an article of faith, the requirement that Royal Court productions be set around a working-class kitchen sink. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre 2011-01-31T00:05:02Z

McMullin grew up in a working-class family in Auburn, Washington, the oldest of four siblings. Evan McMullin Is Trying to Save Democracy 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

It starts off, like many working-class sitcoms of the time, with a family shouting at each other around the kitchen table, but one character, played by Newley, just isn't joining in. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-08-12T23:07:36Z

As she hustles, with the help of her husband and friends, to rally a majority, her encounters open the doors into a cross section of contemporary working-class life in Northern Europe. ‘Two Days, One Night’: Dardenne brothers take a star turn, enlisting Marion Cotillard 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Earlier this year, the 37-year-old director and his young company took on a new Portuguese translation of Gregory Burke’s “Gagarin Way,” which depicts a working-class community in a small Scottish city. Next Stop: The Arts Take Root in Portugal?s ?Cradle City? 2011-07-22T18:55:00Z

He spoke with obvious love for his hometown, a largely working-class transportation hub with a character far removed from the wealthy enclaves nearby. In 'Wildheart,' Miguel explores L.A.'s 'weird mix of hope and desperation' 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

It bonds them, too, as working-class underdogs in a system that tilts to the elite and as men who struggle to combat the forces against them. ‘The Night Of’ Season 1, Episode 3: Outsiders 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

However, as Harris points out, the way young children learn can vary surprisingly between working-class and middle-class children, and people from different ethnic backgrounds. ?Why won?t you answer me?? 2012-05-20T18:00:00Z

In Brazil, even young and working-class women regularly invest their disposable income in tummy tucks and the country’s signature “butt lift.” Aging and My Beauty Dilemma 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

Gentrification has begun but not uprooted the working-class community that preceded it. They Left a Broken U.S. for Outer Space. Now They’re Coming Back. 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

Trump is popular with white working-class men because of economic anxiety, they said. An open letter to the “Ivanka voters” I grew up with: I hope you get what you want 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

"He had enormous creativity and was rich in ideas. People have said Lee's energy had to do with escaping working-class origins, where creativity wasn't valued. " Alexander McQueen remembered 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

It was in an intriguing neighborhood: working-class, with a diverse population that included Haitians, Dominicans and puppies. The Delights and Challenges of French Guiana 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

In Lynn Nottage’s scorching play “Sweat,” the bonds among a group of working-class friends and family are frayed to the breaking point by the pressure of an eroding economic future. Review: The Jobs Are Gone in ‘Sweat.’ So Are People’s Hopes. 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Racial tensions ignite as working-class whites fear they have replaced blacks at the bottom of the ladder, and all the characters are pulled into the violence. | 'Banished Children of Eve': Hustlers and Lovers Endure the Civil War Era 2010-10-27T21:49:00Z

Though Mr. Pruitt, who grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Rockville, Md., did not come from a particularly religious family, strains of the religious have long run through his work. A Penitent Reflects on the Wilderness 2010-09-16T04:00:00Z

While they heard sweet, soothing sounds that provided an escape from working-class drudgery, some of their neighbors heard danger. What “Babylon” Captured About Racism and Reggae 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

It seems to be something swapped from hand to hand between the rich, and the working-class man or the poor man doesn't understand any aspect of it at all – never mind the prices. Billy Ocean, singer – portrait of the artist 2012-07-17T17:18:03Z

Lee Hall's "The Pitmen Painters," a piece from the author of "Billy Elliot" about working-class miners who discover their hidden talents, will open in September under the direction of BJ Jones. TimeLine to produce 'Enron,' 'My Kind of Town' 2011-02-24T05:47:02Z

He was often lauded for his dialogue, but his works had political undercurrents as well, exploring working-class sectors of British society. British Library Acquires Letters of Harold Pinter 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Why do working-class voters still go for it? Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

One also detects something of Terence Davies's films about growing up in working-class, Catholic Liverpool. Neds ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:53Z

In the independent film, Ms. Miller plays a working-class mother in Pennsylvania whose teenage daughter disappears. Sienna Miller and Anna Wintour Celebrate ‘American Woman’ 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

The focus is on two male performers, one in working-class clothes, the other in office attire, each representing aspects of Cairo’s social history. Art Review: ?The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial? 2012-02-16T23:45:32Z

They might be working-class or lower middle-class but I'm not 100% sure. Are TV sitcoms too middle-class? 2011-01-30T00:04:16Z

He's never going to be the focus of the free-floating homophobic taunting that seems ubiquitous in the public spaces of his working-class neighborhood. Does "Weekend" mark a new direction for gay cinema? 2011-09-21T22:01:00Z

Witty and casual, he wore his reputation lightly, never losing touch with his roots in working-class Brooklyn. Donald Kagan, Leading Historian of Ancient Greece, Dies at 89 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

At Harvell’s funeral home in Elizabeth, New Jersey, a largely Hispanic and black working-class suburb, he constantly transitions between embalmer and compassionate community pillar. 'Inundated and overwhelmed': black undertakers struggle amid pandemic 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

For example, studies have shown that working-class women show less pronounced regional accents than their husbands, perhaps because of greater contact with doctors, teachers and other professionals. ‘How to Speak Midwestern,’ Edward McClelland’s Regional Guide 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

Discount airlines have decreased ferry traffic considerably in Italy, excluding an exceptionally colorful group of elderly and teenage working-class travelers who crowded a blue-carpeted lounge bar that night. A Honeymoon Through Italy 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The movie presents da Silva, who is now 66 and is being treated for throat cancer, as an unblemished working-class hero and natural leader of exceptional intelligence and humanity. 'Lula, Son of Brazil': An upbeat look at rise of leader for the people 2012-03-08T22:02:08Z

The stars subvert the male, pale and stale status quo: they are mainly women of colour, and also represent queer, trans and working-class identities. ‘The boys' club has been obliterated’: meet the women of colour shaking up comedy 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

And since this is a Ken Loach film, there is plenty of grit and working-class stoicism, and also the hovering threat of violence and repressive state power. | 'Looking for Eric': Steve Evets and Eric Cantona in Ken Loach?s Film 2010-05-13T22:40:00Z

For all her ambition, Ms. Beckham is not ready to slough off the last remnants of her working-class past. Victoria Beckham: Is She for Real? 2010-09-03T22:43:00Z

To television viewers, Mr. Gordon was best known as the patriarch on “Roc,” a situation comedy about a working-class black family in Baltimore, broadcast on the Fox network for three seasons starting in 1991. Carl Gordon, a Late-Blooming Actor, Dies at 78 2010-07-23T04:30:00Z

Despite his middle-class background – he was born Anthony McMillan, the son of a doctor and a teacher – Coltrane always identified with working-class Glasgow. Robbie Coltrane: 'I take no nonsense' 2012-11-09T22:59:00Z

The Johnson Wax Building, about an hour away in Racine, is in a working-class residential neighborhood that is short on restaurants. Cultured Traveler: Touring Wright Buildings in Wisconsin 2011-11-02T16:40:35Z

It's a simple and moving story, but Barnes crams it with detail about working-class scouse life, the banter of teenage friendships and Greg's relationship with his dad. Bitch Boxer/Bottleneck – review 2013-02-26T08:40:00Z

“The goal is to make grass-roots activism accessible, and to represent people of color and working-class people,” he said. Amid Climate Talks, an Actor’s Call to Action Unfolds Onstage 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

America rushed into those conflicts and turned ambivalent, even as its soldiers, most from low- and working-class households, endured multiple tours of duty and uncomfortable stares from their countrymen. Did 'American Sniper' miss an important mark? 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Rex UK summary Beloved, long-running soap opera about the downtrodden working-class residents of east London's Albert Square. Matt LeBlanc comedy Episodes shows what can go wrong in remaking telly 2011-01-08T00:08:02Z

After “Tick, Tick … Boom!,” de Jesús hopes to act in Colón’s play, “The War I Know,” a working-class, Puerto Rican story that mirrors their own. In ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!,’ Robin de Jesús Knew He Could Do It 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Slattery grew up on a council estate in north-west London, the youngest of five children and the son of working-class Irish immigrants. Tony Slattery: ‘I had a very happy time until I went slightly barmy’ 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

He has empathy for the white working class and was after all raised by a grandfather with working-class roots. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

And though set in a radically different world, the motifs here are similar to “Lone Survivor,” Wahlberg’s working-class drama about gritty men fighting for their lives in dire conditions. The BP oil spill comes to movie theaters 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sharp, now a frail 84 and living in a modest working-class neighborhood of Boston, is the quiet, self-effacing subject of this admiring film from the British director Ruaridh Arrow. Movie Review: Gene Sharp in Documentary ?How to Start a Revolution? 2012-02-24T00:04:58Z

The film might be thought the Boulting brothers' first, premature foray into the field of social satire, yet, here, the working-class boy placed at a top boarding school acts out their essential conservatism. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z

Coronation Street broke new ground in introducing a working-class drama with a Lancashire accent, firmly set in the north-west. Coronation Street: 50 years on and still the pride of the north-west 2010-12-09T15:34:00Z

This is a tough, working-class region – the landscape is mottled with slag heaps – and, with its long history of mining and poverty, the overall atmosphere is of a French-speaking Yorkshire. Emilie Dequenne: 'Making a film like Our Children is something you have to survive' – interview 2013-04-27T23:01:05Z

The other, of course, is Hitchcock's fellow working-class Londoner, Charlie Chaplin. Hitchcock – review 2013-02-10T00:05:00Z

That photo was taken in Garwood, N.J., where Mr. Perrotta grew up in a working-class family, his mother a secretary, and his father, who died a decade ago, a mail carrier. Tom Perrotta Discusses the Themes of ?The Leftovers.? 2011-08-29T22:15:59Z

There are also 12 Swedes, plus Zadie Smith, Donna Tartt and the French author Édouard Louis, 25, who is acclaimed for his books showing the brutal reality of working-class life in France. An Alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature, Judged by You 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

The reality of the "Cally", told here, is more sedate, but no less intriguing, centred on a close working-class community that's under threat from inevitable gentrification. TV highlights 20/06/2012 2012-06-19T18:59:01Z

Gallagher would later describe Public Enemy as "inspirational" and draw comparisons between hip-hop and his own music as kindred forms of working-class expression. Pop music’s elitism problem: Why Oasis never got the respect they deserved 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z

More than any of his previous albums, on which Mr. Snider usually excoriates himself above all others, this one — among his best — is largely a genial catalog of working-class rage and revenge. New Music: New Albums From Todd Snider, Nite Jewel and Floratone 2012-03-05T23:28:52Z

Just as actual labor became increasingly invisible to consumers, shunted off overseas or hidden through e-commerce, working-class people entered TV through the poor door, or not at all. Review: The 2017 Class Divide in a New ‘One Day at a Time’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

When working-class bars went non-smoking, their clienteles dispersed to drink and smoke in private, leaving few indoor sites for gatherings and conversations. Why are the poor blamed and shamed for their deaths? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

Foul-mouthed grit and working-class angst are the prevailing moods in two taut solo shows at this year’s Brits Off Broadway series at 59E59 Theaters, though one production is more convincing than the other. | Brits Off Broadway: Brits Off Broadway Two Shows at 59E59 - Review 2011-11-15T22:13:25Z

It’s a problem that TV as a whole doesn’t feature more working-class characters and characters of color, but Dunham, an autobiographical artist, is not the person I’d pick to create any of that. What Lena Dunham’s “learned”: Her entertaining, frustrating literary debut 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

The characters Issa and Lawrence, for example, live in the Dunes, an apartment complex with predominantly working-class Black residents, even though they graduated from Stanford and Georgetown. ‘Insecure’ Broke Ground by Embracing Imperfection 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

A lightning-quick motormouth as a fighter -- something like a working-class white-boy answer to Muhammad Ali -- Dickie has descended into petty crime and drug addiction by the time "The Fighter" begins, in the early '90s. "The Fighter": From small-town palooka to champion 2010-12-10T01:30:00Z

The result is another stark study of working-class America, this time centering on a father and daughter, played by Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie, who are surviving in the wilderness. No cape required: your guide to the best alternative films this summer 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Roseanne returns to US screens on 18 March and will be – as it was in 1988 – a rare depiction of white, working-class, midwestern life on US network TV. Laurie Metcalf on Lady Bird and the return of Roseanne in the age of Trump 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

“The Messenger” is about a young working-class black intellectual, a Missouri-born veteran of the Korean War, who comes to live on West 49th Street in New York. 2 TV Shows, 4 Books and 7 Viral Videos for Your Long Weekend 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

Above all, it celebrates the wondrous and odd details of everyday life in working-class California during the Great Depression. 'How the World Was' a vivid tale of a 20th century California boyhood 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

To me, the real pity is that so many coastal elites know so few working-class folks of any color, let alone the hillbilly subset of them. The chattering classes got the "Hillbilly Elegy" book wrong—and they’re getting the movie wrong, too 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z

It focuses on his life as a boy whose Nigerian parents “farmed” him out to a white, working-class family in Tilbury, Essex, in the hope of giving him a better future. Kate Beckinsale on her role in Farming: 'If the parent is 100% evil, it's almost less damaging' 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Simon’s parents are working-class Swedes, but he develops a surrogate family in his schoolmate Isak and Isak’s father — wealthy, German and Jewish. Movie Review: ‘Simon and the Oaks,’ From Sweden 2012-10-12T17:00:07Z

Photograph: Century Films/BBC/Century Films Deptford High Street was once known as the Oxford Street of south London, a centre of commerce populated by well-to-do working-class families living in handsome homes. TV highlights 06/06/2012 2012-06-05T19:00:01Z

Like Samuel D. Hunter’s “Greater Clements,” which recently ended its run at Lincoln Center, “Paris” is a solid addition to the expanding genre of sociologically detailed working-class American dramas. Review: Shrinking Lives at a Big Box Store in ‘Paris’ 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Offal sandwiches originated as an affordable source of protein for working-class Florentines. Under the Tuscan fork: Florence for foodies 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Not so their scenes, all hokum and working-class Jewish clichés. Review: ‘The Flamingo Kid,’ a Musical Not Yet in Flight 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

One man, who declined to give his name but said he was from New Mexico, noted that public transportation served working-class people, not millionaires, and disrupting their trains and buses would send the wrong message. Occupy protesters set sights on Chicago 2012-03-19T05:00:00Z

The play, about a working-class man coping with his conflicting feelings for his deceased father, was a critical hit for the National Theater. With an ‘Othello’ of His Own, a Director Comes Full Circle 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

Coming from a working-class family, I find myself drawn to these sorts of characters: characters who appear to have less armor and artifice. This Week in Fiction: Victor Lodato 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

For working-class north London boys like Lewis Rosenberg, however, surfing was the way to go – even if you couldn't stand up properly, because surfboards didn't have fins in the 1920s. Luther 2010-05-11T07:00:00Z

It also allows Mr. Joel, a fellow Long Islander, to reconnect with his working-class roots and honor his hometown fans while providing an opportunity for a diligent performer who sometimes reminds him of himself. From Billy Joel Tribute Band to the Real Thing 2013-12-30T22:29:29Z

It's a familiar story -- well-off, bored wife launches an affair with a working-class man -- made new by the immediacy Scott Thomas brings to it. Kristin Scott Thomas, then and now 2010-12-03T18:59:00Z

From Connolly, Bridges inherits a knack for telling amiable stories about working-class life, albeit in a glummer style. Comedy gold: Kevin Bridges' The Story So Far 2013-03-08T10:00:04Z

“The Englishman,” set in London, is Stuart’s answer to Hollinghurst and Forster, stories where working-class boys are the quiescent objects of upper-middle-class men. A Booker Prize Winner Takes On First Love and — Just Maybe — Hope 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

If his language was French, he could also speak the patois of working-class Arabs. Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters - review 2012-11-14T08:00:01Z

As a lonely Mexican-American feminist growing up in a working-class neighborhood, I was desperate for role models and encouragement, and I don’t think anyone else should have to grow up this way. 5 ways to help girls survive a deeply sexist world 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z

The white working-class boys are nearly stock characters, but the details of their interactions, personal and sociological, are finely observed. “Rockaway,” Reviewed: A Queens Boy’s Stark and Moving Tale of Surviving Domestic Violence 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

The main dining room of Roofers Union is the Everyman of restaurants, like its working-class name implies. Roofers Union review: ‘Top Chef’ puts the spotlight on Marjorie Meek-Bradley 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

The museum included displays that recreated life in the East End of London when it was a primarily Jewish area; many of the working-class Jews there worked as tailors and seamstresses. My month of being Jewish 2010-04-08T07:00:00Z

How many times will I flinch when everyone in the show says “ma” instead of “mum” in forced, rough, drama-school working-class accents? His Dark Materials: how many more fantasy epics must I watch before I die? 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

He understands that working-class taste is about display and comfort and bling and play. Grayson Perry's tapestries: weaving class and taste 2013-06-08T08:00:41Z

At the time it was one of the few hit programs centered on a working-class family. ‘Roseanne’ Revival Wins Huge TV Ratings 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Therein lies the key to the film; Nyman has a passionate affair with a working-class visitor to her father's apartment. Lena Nyman obituary 2011-02-07T18:32:00Z

They are both blue-collar, working-class cops who are good people. "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

The show climaxes with the draft riots of 1863, when white working-class New Yorkers formed violent racist mobs following a draft lottery. A Producer Seeks a Broadway Comeback, Mired in Offstage Drama 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

Delaney, at the age of 71, is considered to be the country's first working-class female playwright. Q&A: A Taste of Honey 2014-02-19T13:00:29Z

They grew up working-class: Her father was a copper miner in Butte, Mont., before getting a degree and changing careers, eventually becoming a corporate executive. Barbara Ehrenreich Contains Multitudes. They’re All Ticked Off. 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

But as researcher Leon Feinstein has shown, from the age of around two there are discernible differences in the performance of children from working-class homes and better-off homes. Should Oxbridge discriminate to boost the numbers of black students? 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z

For many years, Rock Springs’ white, working-class people enjoyed an atmosphere of social cohesion that today is hard to find. Downward spiral: how addiction decimated a Wyoming family 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

This is where “Supersonic” produces its sense of drama: they were a working-class band that, in Noel’s words, “came from nothing and wanted it all.” Oasis and the Fading Dream of the Nineties 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

I thought I’d like to write a little treatment about a poet, a working-class guy in Paterson who’s actually a very good poet but not a known one. Director Jim Jarmusch Talks New Film 'Paterson' 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

She is a 16-year-old, working-class, straight British girl, and probably not Jewish. Playing a teen rock critic "scared the crap out" of Beanie Feldstein in "How to Build a Girl" 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

She recalls a funny conversation with actor Robert Carlyle, also from a working-class background: "We were laughing, the two of us, saying, 'Just think: our children know what Parma ham is.'" Anne-Marie Duff: 'I wondered if I should lie about my background' 2013-05-19T05:00:03Z

He grew up working-class around Melbourne — his father was a carpenter — and after university taught at a school in rural Mallacoota, just down the winding river from where he now lives. He Wants to Save the Present With the Indigenous Past 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

Mobility was lower in working-class states and higher in creative-class ones, higher in richer states than poorer ones, and in blue states than red ones. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z

Born to a working-class family in a predominantly white neighbourhood in northern California, she says her identity was shaped by growing up “biracial”, as Americans call it, with an African-American mother and a white father. Ex-Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth: ‘The headlines implied I was a token black hire’ 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Penny was born into a working-class neighborhood in Binghamton, and raised her sons there. Love couldn't break heroin's grip as sons became casualties of epidemic 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

He was born into a British working-class family, with a father who ran a bed-and-breakfast in Liverpool and a mother who worked in social services. After ‘Rocketman’, Taron Egerton Transforms Again for ‘Black Bird’ 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Moore’s specialty was the working-class girl struggling to get by in a man’s world without compromising too much of her virtue. 2010-02-06T01:50:00Z

The owner comes up with an unlikely plan to produce outrageous thigh-high spike-heeled boots that can withstand a man's heft, meeting resistance from the English working-class laborers. Fierstein, Lauper forge "kinky" show that's safe for Broadway 2013-04-05T10:33:46Z

Martin Redfern, who acquired the book for HarperCollins, said that music hall used to be "the dominant form of working-class entertainment before the rise of cinema and radio". John Major's next act to be music hall 2011-04-12T15:21:20Z

But when an ode to the middle- and working-class Latin American communities of Washington Heights, written by a Puerto Rican who grew up in Washington Heights, premieres in Washington Heights, you have to go, verdad? Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘In the Heights’ comes home 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

A caustic comedy about country and class, the play intends to skewer working-class narrow-mindedness and liberal condescension. Review: ‘Invincible’ Brings Class and Conflict to the Party 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

“I grew up in a similar working-class environment to Steve and these guys,” he said. Capturing the Anarchy in the Sex Pistols 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

Together, the actors convincingly evoke the familial and social bonds connecting working-class Irish-Catholic Long Islanders. Movie Review: ‘The Fitzgerald Family Christmas,’ From Edward Burns 2012-12-07T00:48:28Z

He was born in Philadelphia to a working-class Russian Jewish immigrant family. Rocket to the Moon revived 2011-03-19T00:06:40Z

But the South itself still looked, very much, like the South that Fogerty had conjured up, out of whole cloth, in working-class El Cerrito, California, thousands of miles away. Where John Fogerty's Songs Come From 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Again, his outsider status as a queer working-class African-American is a big part of the answer. He Captured a Clandestine Gay Culture Amid the Derelict Piers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The Federal Theater Project sponsored companies around the country to perform new shows for a broad, working-class audience in unconventional venues. Orpheus to Play Kahane’s ‘Gabriel’s Guide to 48 States’ 2013-04-19T18:57:59Z

Instead, this child of the working-class Bronx largely taught himself painting in his 30s, evolving an altogether sharper and more original manner, politically and pictorially. Art in Review: Ralph Fasanella: ‘A More Perfect Union’ 2013-06-13T20:50:55Z

Writing at The Guardian, sociologist Arlie Hochschild offers a devastating critique of how race and class intersect for white working-class American voters. The lie of white “economic insecurity”: Race, class and the rise of Donald Trump 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

So purposely, because of old fashioned racism, black people were not prescribed pills in the way that the same doctors prescribed pills to white people — especially working-class white people. The reality of life in a "Dopesick" country: "It is just a state of misery" 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

He went to live in Port Glasgow, a working-class town on Scotland’s west coast whose shipbuilding industry is now depleted. Mark Neville’s Immersive Photo Experiment 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

For a rich girl to have the time of her life in a romantic film, she really has to pair off with a bona fide, hardcore working-class hero. Joe Queenan's guide to romance cliches 2010-10-16T11:00:00Z

That his heroes were ordinary working-class people, for me, made the book all the better. Letters: Alone under a dictatorship 2011-01-15T00:06:19Z

Founded in 1969 by some D.C.-area peaceniks aiming to undercut food distributors, the operation moved in 1971 to a storefront on the main street of Mount Rainier, then a working-class inner-ring suburb. How the pandemic saved Glut, an odd, beloved Maryland food co-op 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

"I was just a young white kid from Oregon commanding these working-class kids from the ghetto." Vietnam road 2010-07-10T23:01:00Z

While marriage is stable or strengthening among our college-educated elites, much larger numbers of Americans, particularly in middle and working-class America, are abandoning the institution entirely, with harmful social and personal consequences. Motherlode Blog: Does Championing Marriage Exclude Single Parents? 2013-01-29T23:41:21Z

With overlapping membership, and inspired by the example of the Black Power movement, both were responses to the experiences faced by brown-skinned, working-class immigrants to the United States. Honoring Latinx Art, Personal and Political 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

The Sheffield-born Cocker's rocky but ultimately successful career took him from working-class pubs in Northern England to the Woodstock festival in 1969, to the top of the charts in the 1980s. Joe Cocker, raspy-voiced British singer, dies at 70 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Part of their popularity has always been the charm of working-class boys done good, but there was nothing romantic about the poverty Ant recalls. Ant and Dec: just the two of us 2013-02-23T09:00:00Z

"Tall Tales" offers a long-form version of the origin story that most of us know about Hall: she grew up one of five girls in a turbulent working-class family in Mesquite, Texas. At 65 Jerry Hall has proven to be more than just a rich man's arm candy – she's a feminist firebrand 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

The characters on the British “Shameless” speak in rough working-class accents and are tough on outsiders and on one another. Television Review: Sincerest Forms of Flattery for British Shows 2011-01-06T23:10:24Z

“The Rib King’’ upends the racial calculus that amplifies the stories of the privileged few, offering rich, lovingly rendered portraits of working-class Black people. Review | Ladee Hubbard’s ‘The Rib King’ is a fascinating look at ambition, race and revenge 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

Regardless of their seemingly "working-class" backgrounds, it's kind of hard to empathize with people who have world-building amounts of wealth. Why do some celebrities pretend to have struggling, working-class backgrounds? 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z

To his credit, Zwart gives les attention to the city's exotic aspects than to its grimy, bustling, working-class milieu; this might be Detroit with dumplings. 'The Karate Kid' Review: Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith Do Kung Fu Fighting 2010-06-11T09:10:00Z

In the early 20th century, Milton Hershey transformed chocolate from a luxury good to a working-class staple. ‘In Chocolate We Trust’ Review: A Man, a Brand, a School, a Town 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z

The working-class neighborhoods on either side of the border are mirror images of each other. Picturing the Power of Community 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Mia also observes the impact of poverty and racial prejudice on the motel’s few working-class residents and on fellow immigrants secretly sheltered by her parents. Review | ‘Proud’ and other best books to inspire young readers 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

Roth does not expect to live in the UK again, but it’s clear the contours of his working-class childhood still shape his career choices. Tim Roth: ‘As messy as your life can be, there has to be a window you can escape through' 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Eribon, 64, is the author of “Returning to Reims,” a memoir about his own working-class upbringing and coming out as a gay man, which helped lead Mr. Louis to become a writer. For the French Author Édouard Louis, His Books Are His Weapon 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

People have said that the Jam turned working-class kids on to poetry. Bard reputation: pop stars pick their favourite poets 2010-10-07T15:52:00Z

But as he says "it's a working-class town and people there are very down to earth ... and people respect teachers in the same way they do doctors or nurses." Biffy Clyro interview: 'We care too much to be cool' 2013-01-26T22:00:01Z

Though “High Dive” is, on its surface, about an attempted assassination, what it’s really about is working-class disappointment — from immobility, political neglect and scattered daily humiliations. Review: Jonathan Lee’s ‘High Dive’ Revisits a Plot to Kill Margaret Thatcher 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

And today, even with all the farm-to-table talk and a huge locavore movement, comfort food is the same working-class cuisine we were raised on. Seattle vs. New England in the supper bowl: how our food cultures compare 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

I have relied on some of the information held there for my own research into the active involvement of working-class women in these political movements. The People's History Museum provides pieces of a global jigsaw 2010-12-04T10:59:00Z

Up to a point, Lord Copper, but on the side at least you don't have to scratch very hard to come up with politicians whose working-class credentials are impeccable. This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson – review 2013-05-11T15:00:01Z

He successfully conveyed his story as the son of working-class Cuban immigrants who, a mere four years ago, owed $100,000 in student loans. Marco Rubio’s meritocracy myth: Helping corporations slash salaries and pocket the profits in the name of the “American dream” 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

The revelation was a long time coming for Feinstein, who was born to a working-class family in the Bronx and raised in Queens. Rochelle Feinstein Makes Work That Is Purposefully Hard to Define 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

Stuart’s debut is a brilliant, heart-rending work set in decaying working-class neighborhoods around Glasgow of the Thatcher era. Best audiobooks of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

I'm less impressed by After the Battle, the tale of an anguished working-class horseman dragooned into storming the protesters during last year's Egyptian uprising. Cannes 2012 diary: day two 2012-05-17T15:11:18Z

In Stephen Merchant’s “Fighting With my Family,” released earlier this year, she played a working-class English girl who conquers long odds and self-doubt to become a WWE professional wrestler. Florence Pugh goes down a dark rabbit hole in ‘Midsommar’ 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

These days, just admitting such a desire can seem slightly suspect, though it points to working-class origins and Depression-era parents. Perspective | In turbulent times, culling my book collection gave me the illusion of control. Then the dilemmas began multiplying. 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Reynolds identified two scenes that appealed to the young and idealistic: shoegaze “for your sort of guitar-loving, middle-class students,” and rave culture, which was “druggie, working-class, also kind of an escape in a way.” Shoegaze, the Sound of Protest Shrouded in Guitar Fuzz, Returns Again 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

It featured a blue-collar family, the Conners, with overweight parents struggling to get by in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois, and was praised for its realistic portrayal of working-class life. After massive ratings, TV's Roseanne Barr gets call from Trump 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

If all you need from the new “Roseanne” is Ms. Barr’s materfamilias sarcasm, the crack team of comedy actors surrounding her and an update of the show’s working-class gallows humor, it has you covered. Review: On ‘Roseanne,’ Times Have Changed, but They’re Still Tough 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Gregory Archival Trust Some strange moods and behaviour seem to descend upon most folk whenever they visit an English working-class seaside resort, but nowhere is this transformation so marked as in Blackpool. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-12T23:08:44Z

A hoagie, he said, is “an old-school working-class item,” he added. Would You Take Out a Loan to Buy This Week’s Groceries? 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

A family-owned, decades-old dive bar extraordinaire, where Capitol Hill’s older and working-class residents pull on Budweisers and scarf down burgers at night, the Tune Inn is also a decent place to start the morning. 36 Hours in Washington, D.C. 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Warren, an actor since childhood, was 24 when he had the idea for a television series set in a working-class street in northwestern England, where he had grown up. Tony Warren, creator of long-running soap opera ‘Coronation Street,’ dies at 79 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

He grew up in a working-class family in west London. Steve McQueen on the Oscars whitewash: ‘I’m hoping we can look back and say this was a watershed moment’ 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

There was the human cost: the poor and working-class families uprooted from their homes on the West Side of Manhattan in the name of slum clearance. A Starburst Is Born: Watch the Building of the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

Jack was born into a working-class family in Leeds. Jack Birkett obituary 2010-05-28T15:44:00Z

British folk singer Billy Bragg attempted to rewrite the GOP's new anthem to better reflect the sort of working-class ideals that are popular all over the world. "Rich Men" versus the rest of us: A country hit embodies the GOP's narrative 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z

The number of coal miners has been decreasing for 50 years, but the idea of a hardworking white male working-class coal miner dominates the popular imagination. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z

Within the past decade, academics and health professionals have turned a spotlight on working-class fathers’ attitudes. Absent father no longer: men confront stereotypes to become involved parents 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

It intrigued me that this working-class character was going through a sexual identity struggle. “My idea of romance is tailor-made pleasure.”: Harris Dickinson on being sexy but not romanti... 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

But “sometimes — more effectively,” he adds, “it’s a working-class family dramedy, conscious of the cascading effects of small financial setbacks and the code-switching involved in moving across cultures.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Voice’ and ‘Gentefied’ 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Born in working-class Detroit in 1927, he was turning out elaborately illustrated letters to friends even in high school. ‘Not Nothing’ Tries to Capture the Artist Ray Johnson 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

Elson was born into a working-class family – her parents separated when she was seven and she has a twin sister, Kate, and two much older half-brothers. Karen Elson 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z

Instead he became an improbable sapper in 560 Field Company, which he later described as "a very working-class unit trying to build some patently inadequate defences against invasion on the coasts of East Anglia". Eric Hobsbawm obituary 2012-10-01T09:59:14Z

This fact has only cemented the barely concealed disgust of the cultural right for working-class women who take up too much space. 'Being a perfect girl can kill you' – extract from Unspeakable Things by Laurie Penny 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

The other thing you get in the film – this is what happened – is you get these working-class radicals, young firebrands, who are not only making articulate speeches, they’re quoting the classics. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

It was classic Loach territory: exploitation, the indignity of unemployment, the resilience and humour of working-class people. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

Being in two bands and touring most of the year illustrates Case's hard-work ethic, perhaps what you'd expect from someone who grew up in working-class Tacoma. Americana cavalcade ? Neko Case, Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss 2011-06-29T23:36:04Z

The cupidity of the government and white real estate developers leaves working-class locals, women especially, with few options. Review: In ‘Here Comes the Sun,’ a Hustle to Thrive in Jamaica 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

A working-class accent slips out from time to time, undermining his sang-froid but injecting a note of menace. Clive Owen and Sam Rockwell hit Broadway in 'Old Times' and 'Fool for Love' with different results 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

With her reliable good cheer, tireless work ethic and working-class appeal, Ms. Black was a TV natural. Cilla Black, British pop singer and TV host, dies at 72 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

The focus stays tight on the working-class Vincolo family as they negotiate life with an intellectually disabled daughter in a Chicago suburb: Bernie, now in her 20s and still playing in a sandbox. Review: ‘Bernie and Mikey’s Trip to the Moon’ Is Old-School Drama 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

With the influx of highly paid software developers and engineers, the cost of living has risen, driving out many working-class queer people and artists. Amazon ruined our “gayborhood”: Tech-bros are swallowing up Seattle’s Capitol Hill — are LGBT districts across the country endangered? 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

If you want to explore the theme of white working-class resentment, it wouldn’t be difficult. In ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre,’ Sympathy for the Devil 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Smith, who grew up in a working-class family in North Carolina and Detroit, said the Flea post was a culmination of an ambition awakened during a high school production of “Oklahoma!” The Flea’s New Artistic Director Is Dreaming Big 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Marginalised for being a working-class wrestler, ignored and unheralded. Spandex snobbery smackdown: why the liberal elite snubs wrestling 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

Jule Böwe's Kristin sustains minute examination of her every pore and illuminatingly suggests a woman whose eavesdropping anxiety conceals a working-class strength and, as she presses flowers between the pages of her Bible, inner devoutness. Fräulein Julie – review 2013-05-01T12:58:35Z

He grew up in a working-class family in New York's forgotten borough and continues to maintain a good relationship with his mom and sister. Pete Davidson is a chicken cutlet connoisseur 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z

Collette was raised with two brothers, in a suburb of Sydney, as part of a close-knit working-class family. Toni Collette: ‘I don’t like horror films – I’m too petrified’ 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z

Ulua fishing is a working-class sport, and competitors are serious amateurs. Casting for a Big Fish on the Big Island of Hawaii 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

I understand that it takes place in an English estate in between the world wars, that it follows the trials and tribulations of high-born occupants of said estate and their working-class servants. Downton Abbey: why did America fall so hard for the show? 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

"The truth is," said Rocco Siffredi, "that Italians are proud of someone like Berlusconi who is 74, loves sex and has a good sex life – and I don't just mean working-class Italians." Silvio Berlusconi defended by Italian porn star 2011-01-22T23:43:03Z

“I’m mixed race, Middle Eastern and white, and I grew up in what was at the time perceived to be a problem white working-class estate,” he said in an interview. What Radicalizes Young Men? This Show Tells You via WhatsApp 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Khomenko’s portraits depict ordinary working-class people buffeted by social forces, their bodies straining against the boundaries of the canvases. In Miami, a Ukrainian Art Show Becomes Unintentionally Timely 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

Called Time’s Up, the movement was announced on Monday with an impassioned pledge of support to working-class women in an open letter signed by hundreds of women in show business, many of them A-listers. Powerful Hollywood Women Unveil Anti-Harassment Action Plan 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

Nevertheless, their dynamic credibly captured the social class differences between Fitzgerald’s patrician finesse and Hemingway’s macho working-class posturing, and their shared destiny of self-destruction. There's little insight into the literary sparring partners 'Scott and Hem' 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Hunt said that he has benefited from Trump’s ascendance and the former president’s shedding more light on the concerns of working-class voters. A Black Republican tries to bring in Black voters to the GOP 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

And, while in person her accent is pure California, on screen in Tolkien, her clipped, turn-of-the-century English consonants and vowels are flawless, as are her more working-class ones for Fantine. Lily Collins: ‘I want to dig deep, tell the truth and be more brave’ 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

In “Shadow Families,” an inscrutable working-class woman, Baby, becomes the target of gossip and envy by a group of wealthy expat women in 1980s Bahrain — but she coolly exacts her revenge. Reviews: New Books From Sarah Hall, Mia Alvar, Katherine Taylor and Others 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Many of Morgan's encounters are with working-class men; the man on the bus in Christmas Eve is an ex-soldier, tattooed, with a face "unshaven, hardman, a warning". Edwin Morgan obituary 2010-08-19T17:23:00Z

Her films were close to oral history: Eschewing voice-over narration, they were predicated on interviews in which her mainly working-class subjects spoke for themselves. Julia Reichert, Documentarian of the Working Class, Dies at 76 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Kang, the child of working-class Korean immigrants, says she was constantly told that she was lucky and that "just feeling like you are lucky, it can sometimes affect your mentality in some ways." Who lives and who dies? What TV has taught us about who's lucky enough to survive 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

“I believe the proposed cuts will affect our most vulnerable, our working-class poor.” Aldermen decry proposed library cuts 2011-10-22T02:47:00Z

The son of a white Jewish father and a Black mother, Kravitz grew up spending weekdays with his working-class maternal grandparents in Brooklyn and weekends at nightclubs with his parents in Manhattan. Lenny Kravitz, Michael J. Fox, Cicely Tyson and Gabriel Byrne — All in Their Own Words 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

On a muggy August evening in 1987, police officers swarmed a block of squat brick rowhouses in a mostly white, working-class neighborhood in southeast Baltimore. What does an innocent man have to do to go free? Plead guilty 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

“Beverly Hills is a long way from my childhood home in the Elephant and Castle in south London,” he says early on, referring to a working-class neighborhood there. Books of The Times: What It Was All About for Alfie, Now a Grandpa 2010-10-24T21:54:00Z

Two-parent home, what one would call middle- to working-class… That wasn’t a stability James had. “Keep the heat on Adam Silver!”: Author Dave Zirin sounds off on Sterling, LeBron and Muhammad Ali 2014-05-09T13:24:00Z

A gritty, fact-based fairy tale set in working-class Lowell, Mass., "The Fighter" is quite effective as drama — that is, until it abruptly changes genres in its final act. 'The Fighter': Two parts punchy drama, one part formulaic sports movie 2010-12-16T10:16:05Z

White working-class voters felt abandoned by both parties. Promises, promises 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

We must not absolve poor whites and working-class whites for their racism. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

As in that series, British period dramas usually show working-class characters as servants. Steven Knight Isn’t Ready for ‘Peaky Blinders’ to End 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

After their spring show on Thursday, Mr. Cox said that the collection was influenced by “Bexleyheath boys,” young working-class men who are characterized by their loutish behavior and by wearing tracksuits and hooded sweatshirts. On the Runway Blog - Fast Fashion: Working Stiffs 2011-09-08T22:04:23Z

For one, working-class white people can see themselves on screen. The chattering classes got the "Hillbilly Elegy" book wrong—and they’re getting the movie wrong, too 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z

“But it was a more lower middle-class or upper working-class background.” Steve Coogan: ‘Maybe I've just got flabby and middle-aged' 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

In the case of “Skylight,” the residents are struggling, working-class families, trying to make ends meet. Book review: ‘Skylight’ by Jose Saramago 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Others have characterized the series as a working-class comedy, which I suppose it is. "Broad City": Breaking out, not breaking up 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

“War Horse” and “Tintin” each also have a connection with one of the best contemporary films about childhood hopes and fear, “Billy Elliot,” about a working-class boy who, improbably, becomes a ballet star. Holiday Movies: The Season of Spielberg 2011-10-28T16:42:47Z

Walking around her local neighbourhood, the mixed, working-class district of Anneessens, at any time of day she would be greeted with cat-calls, wolf-whistles and jeers of "slag" and "how much do you cost?" Belgium film on street harassment strikes a chord across Europe 2012-08-03T16:53:10Z

Ironically, we found Republican affiliation and conservative identification were most pronounced in America’s least well-off, least educated, most blue-collar, most working-class states. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z

A group of artists and local volunteers got together and turned an empty room at the Miners Arts and Music Centre on a working-class estate on the edge of the city into a working cinema. All hail HannaH – a new festival celebrating 'great stuff' in the north 2013-04-23T14:13:59Z

The longest outing is a five-day, 31.8-mile journey from La Jolla to the southern terminus of the state, where hikers encounter rocky coastlines, swimming beaches, upscale towns, working-class villages and wildlife preserves. A New Guide to Hiking in California 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

In her unpublished memoir, True charts her rise from working-class Newburyport, Mass., into the mysterious, swashbuckling universe of ancient art and, finally, into an Italian courtroom. One of the world’s most respected curators vanished from the art world. Now she wants to tell her story. 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Moore’s coming of age as a working-class malcontent is, however, something to behold. Books of The Times: ?Here Comes Trouble? by Michael Moore - Book Review 2011-09-13T12:00:00Z

Tall and imperial, Dance, 67, grew up working-class in England and overcame a teenage stammer to devote himself to theater. ‘Game of Thrones’ in-laws go way back together 2014-04-02T22:37:32Z

The high-octane show follows three working-class characters as they wrestle with modern life. Melissa Etheridge to step into 'American Idiot' 2011-01-18T19:38:44Z

I had agreed to run as a candidate to be a councillor; if I was going to bemoan the lack of working-class politicians I decided I should practise what I preach. ‘I was given a second chance’: six people describe their life changes 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

Many black working-class people worked for white people on farms or as domestic laborers. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

They don’t, but their fluency in under- to working-class styles of life is among their assets; it is asphalt essential to their evocation of the city. The Verbal Wit and Bronx-Born Street Wisdom of “Desus & Mero” 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

“That means a lot for regional voices, for working-class voices.” Douglas Stuart Wins Booker Prize for ‘Shuggie Bain’ 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

There, the working-class protagonists situate their own frustrations and satisfactions, their aging and their coming-of-age, within an ambient dialectical narrative of progress and decline. Good Night, Sweet Prince 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Last month, the British feminist commentator Julie Bindel tweeted that “the ‘Karen’ slur is woman hating and based on class prejudice”, arguing that it was a working-class name. What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

On the sleepy two-lane street in a working-class apartment complex where he was shot, the memorial to Brown sums up the conflicting feelings stirred by his death: a yearning for reconciliation but also continuing anger. At Ferguson memorial, reflection and anger at fatal encounter 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

But it wasn't the first time in the U.S. that an entertainer had acted as a populist politician to win the allegiance of working-class white voters who feared losing their socioeconomic status. This unusual course examines rap lyrics about Reagan and the 1980s 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z

If working-class accents are not seen as appropriate in the media, politics and academia, then working-class people are not seen as appropriate in these domains. Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing a working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

In his book Coming Apart, conservative Charles Murray laments the breakdown of white working-class families. Love in the time of layoffs 2012-08-03T20:12:00Z

She was also an influencer before the term existed, in the nineteen-seventies, as a club kid from the working-class barrio of West New York, New Jersey. Remembering Isabel Toledo, a Designer with Few Peers 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

Hackney is, like many East London neighborhoods, caught between a working-class tradition and the rapid onset of gentrification. In London, eat your way through the history — and future — of fish and chips 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

“How has hatred of working-class people become so socially acceptable?” he asks. Books of The Times: Get Your Bling and Adidas Tracksuit, Wayne, a British Class War Is Raging 2011-07-12T20:59:50Z

Courtenay's own upbringing, as a working-class boy from Hull, was not wildly different to that of Billy. Billy Liar ? still in town 2010-09-01T20:30:00Z

It details the frankly sexual exploits of a religious boy who opted for castration and lived as a “fairie” among the working-class immigrants of New York City. Lou Sullivan’s Diaries Are a Radical Testament to Trans Happiness 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

David Rockwell’s rough industrial set thoroughly suggests working-class Northampton, as does the range of earthy body types among the cast playing the longtime denizens of the factory. ‘Kinky Boots’ at Kennedy Center struts, kicks and empowers — just by the book 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

I grew up in a working-class household on the coast of Mississippi. Eddie Glaude Jr., an Expert on James Baldwin, Reveals His Favorite Baldwin Book 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Her previous work has been set at sea, in the mid-nineteenth century, or in working-class Massachusetts, in the sixties, or in Los Angeles, or China. Ottessa Moshfegh’s Painful, Funny Novel of a Young Woman’s Chemical Hibernation 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

He has 17,000 miles to go before reaching his destination, his mother’s modest home on the working-class streets of industrial Hull, England. Will Russia thwart Karl Bushby’s epic hike around the globe?

Logue was a tough Philadelphia Irishman, a working-class graduate of Yale who believed all his life in a hardheaded liberalism not far from that of the Kennedys, whom he admired. The Man Who Rebuilt New Haven, Boston and Beyond 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

"My paintings are escapism," the self-taught, working-class boy says, referring to his images of nylons, cigarette holders and chic affairs. TV highlights 08/04/2013 2013-04-08T06:00:13Z

The struggles he fought failed; the gates that once opened to working-class advancement are now closing. Alexei Sayle – review 2013-01-24T17:46:05Z

"It was about working-class people being able to do very well." James Blunt gets mother's backing in 'posh pop' row 2011-01-28T13:44:08Z

Even in 1946, Orwell was referring to a bygone age in British working-class life. George Orwell was no fan of the News of the World 2011-07-14T11:15:39Z

But he's an autodidact with a working-class accent. Keep the books safe 2011-02-22T09:00:01Z

Adding a further social element, Wynwood coffeehouse, bar and restaurant owners are also preparing to open spaces in the predominantly working-class Little Haiti. Miami’s Art World Sets Sights on Little Haiti Neighborhood 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

The dominatrix’s clientele speaks to the degradation of Spain’s power brokers; the drugged passengers in Economy could be the working-class they sedated. I’m So Excited!: Almodóvar’s Bumpy Flight 2013-06-27T18:36:06Z

Despite offering an undeniably sentimental view of working-class life, it suggests that the comic chinless wonders have a great deal to learn from them about love, loyalty and spirit. Me and My Girl ? review 2010-12-21T21:29:00Z

More than 100 vendors, selling everything from local produce and dry-aged beef to herbs and hand-loomed shawls, attract residents and visitors to the working-class neighborhood of Goes. 36 Hours in Montevideo, Uruguay 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Owen speaks in a working-class accent that has only distant echoes of streetwise Brooklynese. Movie Review: ‘Blood Ties’ Ignores Rules of the Gangster Genre 2014-03-20T23:26:44Z

I was in one working-class neighbourhood on the front line with the rebels when we moved into this kitchen. The Syrian conflict: a war photographer's story 2012-12-14T10:30:00Z

Eastwood though, believes the strength of the story is in the origins of the band in the working-class roots of 1950s New Jersey, of local boys making good. Clint Eastwood brings Jersey Boys to the big screen 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

For much of the 20th century, it was a working-class area, abandoned by the professional classes who were spooked by London's relentless expansion. TV highlights 13/06/2012 2012-06-12T19:30:01Z

“Black Lightning” brings metahuman fantasy into a working-class neighborhood scraping and struggling for resources to offer opportunities to its citizens, a story not frequently seen in comic book films and movies. Smart Watch: This week’s TV heroines who nevertheless persist 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z

The stylish images that follow depict him as a working-class businessman under siege, and besieging others, in snippets of urban violence. In 'A Most Violent Year,' Oscar Isaac's brutal struggles 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

He helped popularise the great working-class riposte to the toffee-nosed union code but many decried him as a northern caricature. Holidate 2010-09-07T07:00:00Z

But he was also, as this show asserts, a kind of working-class hero, whose rakish tastes and picaresque exploits only became possible as an old social order began to give way. On the Trail of a Lover Boy in the Age of Enlightenment 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Portrayed by Michael Cimino, Victor’s working-class, conservative Catholic family relocates to Atlanta from Texas. Hulu’s ‘Love, Victor’ tells journey of a Latino gay teen 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

The short stories of Danticat and Gay and Ru Freeman offer rich and nuanced portraits of different sets of working-class women. A tale of two literary Americas: What a book on inequality accidentally reveals about inequality 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

I had a typical comprehensive history education: kings and queens, nothing about my people, nothing about working-class history. 'Hope has started to grow': Maxine Peake on Corbyn, people power and Peterloo’s radical legacy 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

“It’s been trying to navigate our economy without one of the most important components — good credit — that provides enormous advantages and privileges,” said Mr. Quesada, who grew up working-class in West New York, N.J. The New 30-Something 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

Three generations of this one family offer in microcosm a story of social change in Britain and its impact on a deprived working-class community. Social deprivation in Britain: how a writer's life turned to tragedy 2010-10-17T15:00:00Z

The photographs here show working-class white people drinking Budweiser or fooling with guns, or a freshly killed deer hanging from a basketball hoop. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

The original Spider-Man, an upwardly striving, working-class New York kid, was also a child of the ’60s, a beacon to outsiders and rebels of every color and background, an instinctive democrat and a natural pluralist. ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Review: A Fresh Take on a Venerable Hero 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Educated at Cambridge, living prosperously as a family law solicitor, he's changed his name from Gary to the more posh Nick, and cut off ties to his bumptious working-class family. Dean comes by sentiment honestly in 'Old Romantic' 2011-02-16T17:01:05Z

But the memoir itself capitalized on anxieties about Trump's 2016 ascendency, and promised its readers the background needed to understand what the "white, working-class Trump voter" was thinking. From "The Crown" to an animated WWII series, here's what's new on Netflix in November 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z

The show, initially called “Those Were the Days,” was Lear’s adaptation of an English series called “Till Death Us Do Part,” about a working-class couple in east London who held reactionary and racist views. Jean Stapleton, 90, beloved Edith Bunker on ‘All in the Family,’ dies 2013-06-02T03:01:52Z

Back in Abu Dhabi, I walked around the city’s middle- and working-class neighborhoods at night after work, surrounded by fellow-foreigners—mostly single men but also families with children. The Stories About Abu Dhabi That Are Rarely Told 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Where are these working-class artists being denied their chance? Is pop too posh? 2013-03-30T18:00:01Z

More often than not, Obama weaves tales of her working-class childhood in Chicago into her speeches. What’s on Michelle Obama’s mind? Meet the speechwriter who puts it into words. 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

One employer suggested firms were unwilling to sift through applications from those of working-class backgrounds. 'Poshness tests' block working-class applicants at top companies 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

Her publisher, Dafina Books, markets commercial paperbacks to mostly working-class young African American and Latina women by keeping the price point under 10 dollars and placing their books in urban libraries. This professor turned to erotic fiction to promote social change 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The short documentary series “Braddock, PA,” which was directed by Rosie Haber, and came out last week, on Topic.com, is a portrait of a working-class American town which feels both emblematic and quietly surprising. “Braddock, PA,” a Brisk, Remedial Documentary of a Rust Belt Town 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

Poor and working-class citizens got more assistance; and by 1975 the richest Americans — the top half of the wealthiest 1% — reached the lowest proportion of the U.S. Cranky Guy: Nixon's Still the One 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z

She started her research by looking at photographs of working-class people from the turn-of-the-19th century to the 1960s in Appalachia and other places in America, particularly images by Lewis Hine and Mike Disfarmer. 'Hunger Games' fashions come to fiery life 2012-03-21T00:41:50Z

The same year, On the Shore of the Wide World won the 2006 Olivier award for its panoptic account of three generations of a working-class family in Stockport, Stephens's home town. Playwright Simon Stephens: 'The same old agonies return to haunt you' 2011-04-08T11:18:34Z

I am very proud of being a Black female, working-class person, but I also really just want to make films and have that not be the film as to why someone is interested in me. "It is an unapologetically joyful film": Director urges viewers to visit Hulu's charming "Rye Lane" 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

His mother, My, is a doctor and the family home is in Södermalm, south Stockholm, traditionally a working-class area, but now full of beards and coffee shops. Alexander Skarsgård: ‘Hollywood is very silly. People are so anxious’ | Tim Lewis 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z

Essentially, these are working-class people – a lot of them have second jobs. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z

"It's more difficult if you're from a more working-class background to have the time, the liberty, to attempt something as preposterous as writing a novel." Mick Jackson: 'Taking pity on the reader' 2010-04-08T09:41:00Z

It feels emblematic of the YBAs: They were radical in the sense that they were white working-class kids in Britain who cannily snookered the art system and became rich, famous and iconic. Is Sarah Lucas Right for the #MeToo Moment? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

One of 10 children in a working-class family, he spent his early childhood in South Amboy, N.J., a small city about an hour outside Manhattan that was almost all white and largely Catholic. James Scully’s radical idea for the fashion industry: Treat models like human beings 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

Britain’s longest-running soap, about a northern, working-class street, is famous for its brassy women in particular. From The Archers to HBO: how Sally Wainwright conquered TV 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

In another episode, she talks about her father and another uncle, Eddie, who labored for years in the service industry and other working-class jobs but who died young, with little access to health care. Perspective | Nikole Hannah-Jones isn’t done challenging the story of America 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

The beach community also has a 40-foot-wide boardwalk, a dedicated surfer scene and some vestigial ambience from the working-class Irish resorts that once boomed there. 10 Hot Spots of Summer 2010-07-01T00:36:00Z

With the baby asleep in her car seat, we drove to the foot of the mountain and snaked our way up — passing Fascist-era chalets from the 1930s and working-class villages. Tuscany Without the Crowds 2010-03-05T03:55:00Z

Like most low-income and working-class people who live in Pennsylvania coal country, my sister and her husband live paycheck to paycheck. The worst part of being poor: watching your dog die when you can't afford to help 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

It poses an implicit question: Aside from Bettie’s working-class background, how different are the actress and her character? Movie Review: Catherine Deneuve in ‘On My Way,’ a French Road Movie 2014-03-14T00:39:29Z

That view is a marked difference from what you hear from people in working-class white towns that voted for Trump, who are quick to assign blame to immigration and jobs moving overseas. When factory jobs left Gary, Indiana: whites left, 'but we blacks didn't have a choice' 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

What do these white working-class people we’ve heard so much about really expect? Dear hard-working white people: Congratulations, you played yourself 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

The working-class figure looks to her left, at boats in a river, perhaps a reference to Whistler’s interest in the docks and marine traffic along the Thames. Romaine Brooks painted her circle of friends, but were they portraits? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

“We were a working-class family, and Dad was a gambler, so sometimes there was money, and sometimes we were hungry.” My dad, the bank robber: ‘He never told the truth’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

Andy Warhol was, to quote the catalog, “the ambitious, gay, Byzantine Rite Catholic son of Czechoslovak immigrants born on Pittsburgh’s working-class North Side.” ‘Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again’ Review: Pop Art’s Tragic Prince 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

For 10 years, Heath studied two communities a few miles a part, one black working-class and one white working-class. Why every parent should read to their kids 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Education is the traditional leg up for clever children from rackety working-class backgrounds like hers. Hilary Mantel Takes On Royals and Rebels in a Book of Essays 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

For me, to read writers or to see artists who understand that working-class culture can be as profound and as complex as high culture remains exciting. Grayson Perry's tapestries: weaving class and taste 2013-06-08T08:00:41Z

We grew up in a working-class neighbourhood which, I don't know why, these days is a badge of honour. Killer instincts 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z

So I sped toward the Queen’s Cross Church, known locally as the Mackintosh Church, located just north of downtown Glasgow in a spare but charming working-class neighborhood of red brick buildings and curving thoroughfares. A Glasgow Architect’s Masterpiece Is Damaged, but Not His Magic 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

And even more significantly, this segregation was also vertical: only 2.5% of the executive team were from working-class backgrounds. The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

"Out of the Furnace" stars Christian Bale and Casey Affleck as brothers in a revenge tale set in a working-class Pennsylvania steel town. 'Frozen,' 'Catching Fire' fuel U.S., Canada box office 2013-12-08T17:01:46Z

But working-class people who pay the big money and come out? Talking to John Leguizamo about returning to the scene of the crime 2011-01-27T18:47:09Z

Happily embedded within her politically leftist Jewish family, he was a long way from his working-class Oklahoma origins, though it would be far from the last place this peripatetic troubadour would live. Weekend Miser: ‘Bound for Glory’ to be Screened on Coney Island 2012-07-12T20:03:23Z

She grew up in working-class New England, fighting her way to the top. The true story behind the Midge Maisel-Sophie Lennon rivalry 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

"It's above all the incarnation of a paradox that, today, fuels our food culture," says Rubin, "one of those very working-class dishes that has taken a turn for the chic." Eggs and mayo is a way underrated French bistro dish 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z

It’s because while they may be undesirable working-class slobs to some of their neighbors, they refuse to be ashamed. Small scream: the 10 greatest Halloween TV episodes ever 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

It’s basically a black, working-class version of “Eat, Pray, Love,” but it has a larger message for viewers past midlife. The Year Women Over 50 Reclaimed Their Right to Be Seen 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

It's partnered with DC Moore's The Swan, a diverting if less novel account of a dysfunctional working-class family assembling, after a funeral, in their local boozer in Lambeth, London. Double Feature 1 ? review 2011-08-04T21:30:05Z

Its marble townhouses, with their intimately scaled rooms and grand curving staircases, feel removed from the lives of artists, who tend to settle in working-class neighborhoods that offer lower rents and industrial-size spaces. Mad for Art: A Look Back and Up the Avenue at Women Gallerists 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

A pasty is a working-class English meal-in-a-crust: sort of plain, sort of delicious. 14 reasons why we love D.C. area farmers markets 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

In her quavery voice, we hear just a hint of Becca's working-class background; this is a woman who has transformed herself, and now is wondering what it was for. 'Rabbit Hole': Going down a well of grief with an excellent cast 2010-12-23T21:26:05Z

However, the film, based on a Nik Cohn magazine article, also touched on the grittier fare of everyday working-class Brooklyn life. Doctor Who 2010-06-19T05:45:00Z

Bublé knows who he is, a fisherman's son from a close-knit working-class family in British Columbia. A mature and more at ease Michael Bubl? at Madison Square Garden 2010-04-01T18:52:00Z

A restless, fun-loving party animal, he was the black sheep of his respectable family, and was a tanguero at a time when Argentina’s national dance was still considered a sordid working-class pas de deux. Che Guevara’s brother: ‘Ernesto must be pulled from his pedestal’ 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

Verduzco, 22, spent most of his life in the working-class city of Hawthorne, Calif., until the US deported him to Mexico a few years ago following a criminal conviction. California-raised kids vs. Mexico’s violent cartel 2014-01-18T22:00:00Z

Any college town would be lucky to have someone willing to work as hard, and as skillfully, to document its working-class demimonde. | ?Total Badass? and ?Hell on Wheels': Sport and Grim Reality 2010-11-19T06:13:00Z

Talk to working-class people, and the phrase, “I used to be homeless,” burbles up a lot, but typically it is confessed only after that person has a steady job. Why Richard Gere’s “homeless” photo went viral: It’s more common — and closer to home — than we like to think 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Sometimes — more effectively — it’s a working-class family dramedy, conscious of the cascading effects of small financial setbacks and the code-switching involved in moving across cultures. ‘Gentefied’ Review: A Rent Is Too Damn High Party 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

From his home in Maine, he talked about why he still feels close to those working-class people. Richard Russo completely understands Trump’s blue-collar supporters 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

The new affordable dining trend is no more evident than in the comeback of the city’s bouillons — those working-class restaurants that thrived in Paris during the 19th century. Three Courses, 20 Euros: The Affordable Dining Renaissance in Paris 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

But there we were on a chilly November night in Ridgefield Park, N.J., in the Westside Village Tavern, a distinctly working-class bar nicknamed the Zoo. Neighborhood Cheer: Big TVs and Flowing Taps 2010-12-23T22:35:49Z

He and his working-class peers, on the other hand, were “put on the fast lane” to become a manual worker. Perspective | The unbreakable gaze of Steve McQueen: ‘I’m asking you, please, look’ 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

She has described her prose as “brutally direct, working-class and sometimes obscene.” Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Kevin Humphreys, a Labour party junior minister, said turnout was high in both working-class and middle-class parts of his Dublin South East constituency. Ireland gay marriage referendum: high urban turnout boosts yes hopes 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Arterton then, though successful, was seen as “chirpy” and “perky”, “and all those other grim clichés about working-class young women”, says Leigh. Gemma Arterton: ‘It’s easier to conform and shut up’ 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Binoche is not believable as a working-class American truck driver, and her lingering French accent seems out of place in that world. ‘Paradise Highway’ Review: A Test of Loyalty 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

I think we're two working-class lads, which could go for us if you pitch the right show and you shoot it in the right place. Ant and Dec: just the two of us 2013-02-23T09:00:00Z

Growing up in the gritty Bronx, Goldstein identified with the lads from working-class Liverpool. Meet the critic who panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ then discovered his speaker was busted. He’s still not sorry. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Today it is primarily a working-class bedroom community. Strolling Old Halls and Streets With Ghosts of Civil War 2010-05-13T21:56:00Z

The son of a policeman and a nurse, Sean was a working-class kid who had to pay his way through college with two jobs. Love in the time of layoffs 2012-08-03T20:12:00Z

Their accents have typically included working-class, vernacular linguistic traits from London or southern England more broadly. Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing a working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

He grew up in working-class Newburgh, 35 miles north and a world away from Briarcliff Manor. James Patterson mostly doesn’t write his books. And his new readers mostly don’t read. 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

There was a lot of interracial drinking and gambling especially when you get into cities where working-class whites and blacks are living together. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

PARMA, Ohio — Lest anyone forget the importance of Ohio's white, working-class voters, President Barack Obama sent a clear reminder on Thursday. Stellar duo target Ohio's working class for Obama 2012-10-18T20:59:13Z

"I'm not going to suddenly stop admiring his unique comic talent because I've switched teams," he says, adding that there ought to be a vehicle to show off his "scabrous, dark, smart working-class Scottish humour". BBC's Shane Allen: 'I'm doing the job of comedy gods' 2013-03-24T18:15:01Z

All three are nonetheless linked by their working-class backgrounds, their reinvention of self and their struggle with the duality of a public persona and a private life. These Aren’t Fashion Documentaries (Even if They’re About Fashion Stars) 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

“Jeanne du Barry” is directed by and stars the French actress and filmmaker Maïwenn, who plays the title character, a working-class woman and courtesan who becomes the favorite of the king. Johnny Depp Film About Louis XV Will Open Cannes Film Festival 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

But, as youngsters, the brothers’ working-class background only fuelled their dreams of something else, anything else. Oasis and the Fading Dream of the Nineties 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Set in a fictional working-class Texas town, “Friday Night Lights” made it its business to upend the snooty presumptions of coastal provincialism. Critic?s Notebook: Down South, Where the Stereotypes Bloom 2011-07-21T22:20:50Z

Amy’s parents are now raising their family in a working-class Parisian neighborhood. Perspective | ‘Cuties’ is an unflinching look at what it means to be a preteen girl. No wonder people can’t handle it. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

The first member of his working-class Italian family to finish high school, he won a football scholarship to Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa., where he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1965. Peter C. Marzio, Houston Museum Director, Dies at 67 2010-12-12T03:41:00Z

His wealth comes from London's rubbish heaps, and when the son appears drowned the will devolves the money on to the working-class Mr and Mrs Boffin, who seem corrupted by their sudden affluence. John Mullan's 10 of the best: wills 2012-07-06T21:55:19Z

Granted, Kelley’s art was often set against the backdrop of American working-class suburbs, while Wong’s work unfolds across urban Hong Kong. Wong Ping’s Candy-Colored, Taboo-Smashing World 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

There are exceptions to the rule, examples of people from working-class backgrounds who have excelled – I am one. Should Oxbridge discriminate to boost the numbers of black students? 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z

In April 2008, Barack Obama told a San Francisco donor audience that working-class voters in the Rust Belt “cling to guns or religion” as a way to express their frustrations. Hillary Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ speech shocked voters five years ago — but some feel it was prescient 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

Considered groundbreaking because of a plot that focused on working-class characters, this morality tale remains deliciously tense and dark; Lillo surely read his Shakespeare, for there are faint echoes of “Macbeth” and “Hamlet.” | 'The London Merchant': ?The London Merchant,? an 18th-Century Gem - Review 2012-01-17T22:41:24Z

And in so doing, this remarkable portrayal of female friendship offers a poignant, elemental take on the lives of working-class women in urban Mexico today. ‘La Mami’ Review: Tough Love 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Lunch Counters Even cheaper meals, however, can be found at the ubiquitous lunch counters, often called “bars,” found on every corner in working-class neighborhoods but still common in elite neighborhoods as well. Frugal Traveler: Lunching in S?o Paulo 2010-11-17T21:20:00Z

She said many candidates who had worked in politics would have come from working-class backgrounds with a desire to fight for the party. Half of Labour candidates in marginal seats are Westminster insiders 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

His acute lens captures the struggle of the working-class — and the questioning of authority — in ways that move viewers. "They are not victims": Director Ken Loach on his working-class heroes in "Sorry We Missed You" 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

The "reveal" in her movies is that her characters, invariably working-class, have suffered and that becoming a human bulldozer is how she has learned to deal with it. All hail Melissa McCarthy, Hollywood's indestructible comic superwoman 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

A. Before 1928, urban ethnic working-class political loyalties were divided between the Republican and the Democratic parties. Lisa McGirr Discusses ‘The War on Alcohol’ and the Legacy of Prohibition 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Broadway’s unexpected immersion in working-class lives this season extended beyond the four Tony nominees for best play. Down-and-Outs Are Center Stage Once Again 2011-05-12T14:32:27Z

It’s a “Pygmalion”-like story of a working-class hairdresser bent on self-improvement and the English professor who initiates her transformation. | 'Vision Disturbance': Seeing in Just 2 Dimensions as Her Marriage Breaks Up 2010-09-03T22:35:00Z

After Halifax, clubs swiftly followed in the rugby league heartlands of Bradford and Huddersfield, spreading out to Manchester, Oldham and Leeds – areas where traditional working-class values are still prevalent among many men. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

She lost a lot of white, working-class people. Bernie Sanders meets Spike Lee: ‘Where do we go? Where is the hope?’ 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z

With Christopher Isherwood — whose Berlin stories provided the basis for the musical “Cabaret” — Stephen also spent a lot of time in between-the-wars Germany, mainly picking up working-class boys. The real Stephen Spender as seen by his son in ‘A House in St. John’s Wood’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

The family lived in a working-class neighborhood where his father, Wilhelm, an atheist, ran a socialist bookstore with his brother. Wolfgang Suschitzky, Photographer and Cinematographer, Dies at 104 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

“Maria has got this incredibly rare combination of qualities: She’s incredibly bright, really learned and comes from a real working-class background, and she brings a double perspective to everything,” he said. Why Woolly Mammoth Theatre’s new leader is a trailblazing choice 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The show’s raunchy-but-wistful prairie populism feels especially relevant in this election year, when the news media and political parties are confronting their blind spots for working-class concerns. Review: In ‘The Ranch,’ Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson Reunite as Cowboy Siblings 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Starting in the early aughts, an influx of affluent millennials and empty nesters to the neighborhood drove up home prices, displacing many longtime black middle-class and working-class residents. Is it Meridian Hill Park or Malcolm X Park? Your answer is meaningful. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

The twist, if you want to call it that, is that both the power structure and victims are black and affluent; the working-class criminals and the caseworkers white. TV Picks: Emily Heller, Vanessa Bayer, 'Danger 5,' 'The Divide' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

A passion for reading and an influential teacher helped win the working-class boy a scholarship to Cambridge. ‘Ted Hughes’: A controversial biography shows the poet’s darker side 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Dolce, the son of a tailor in Sicily, taught Gabbana — a fashion-loving graphic designer from a working-class family in Milan — how to sketch. Dolce and Gabbana are rich, extravagant and politically incorrect. You got a problem with that? 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

Let’s start with the fact that there were nice working-class areas where people had homes, they owned businesses. “We don’t do poverty porn”: “The Get Down” creators on recreating New York’s 1970s “party apex” 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z

A lot of the city boys in London, a lot of the hedge-fund, young city workers at the height of the financial boom, were a lot of working-class, brilliantly minded young fellows and women. Actor David Thewlis on the ‘Fargo’ Season Finale, V.M. Varga and Greed 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

But other Republicans are hardly clearing the field, and Vance’s success is likely to hinge on whether the state’s white working-class voters embrace him as a home-state hero or an opportunist. ‘Hillbilly’ to Capitol Hill? Author eyes Senate bid in Ohio 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

As such, “GLOW” feels very much of the Kohan school, which celebrates working-class, complicated women whose common trait is an instinct for survival. Review | Netflix’s ‘GLOW’ fits right in with today’s feminist TV, but mostly it’s just ready to rumble 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

But most of the pictures document the uprising and its working-class bystanders: being searched, standing in the ruins of their former homes or hauling a husband’s wrapped corpse home on a simple pushcart. In the galleries: Unfinished works at Target Gallery 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

You might think that Tintoretto, never very wealthy, would have done his best work for the palace, and let his assistants dash something off for San Silvestro’s working-class congregation. 3 Days, 150 Paintings: A Whirlwind Tintoretto Tour 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

This is worth underlining; even when those from working-class backgrounds are similar to their advantaged colleagues in every way we can measure, they still earn significantly less. The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Gay, and working-class by upbringing, Wojnarowicz was caught up in the culture wars of the 1980s. A West Coast Spotlight on Latino Artists Leads the Fall Art Season 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

The Beatles' raw working-class candour, mixed with Lennon's riff, went into the nation's teenage bloodstream like a drug. October 1962: the month that modern culture was born 2012-09-29T22:12:23Z

In this context, that means he's Jewish, working-class, and kind of dorky. Quiz Show takes the prize for historical accuracy 2012-12-14T11:02:00Z

Mr. Shannon imbues Mike with the same flinty masculinity that he brought to his working-class character in “Take Shelter,” minus the air of grim foreboding. Movie Review: Linda Cardellini in Liza Johnson?s Film ?Return? 2012-02-09T23:12:08Z

The play takes place in Boston’s traditionally working-class Southie neighborhood, where the two grew up and dated as teenagers. ArtsBeat: Behind the Poster: 'Good People' 2011-01-11T22:00:33Z

It’s a reminder that as a working-class girl from Bay Ridge, Peggy’s a trailblazer for her class as well as her gender. 'Mad Men' recap: 'The beginning of something, not the end' 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

These were, however "fun and inclusive", buildings for high culture – fine art, theatre, music – and were usually built in working-class areas. When culture is treated as commodity, no wonder its temples are sold off 2013-05-22T13:18:35Z

The single “I Get By” focuses on the economic trap many working-class people find themselves in today. ArtsBeat Blog: Q. and A.: Everlast Sees the 'Ungrateful Living' All Around Him 2011-10-19T01:16:02Z

Gradually, it wasn't just working-class families that cooked tacu tacu; Lima's creole restaurants made it a popular staple and offered single servings shaped and adorned in various ways. Three generations of fathers, one timeless Afro-Peruvian breakfast 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

With frothing energy and unfettered vulgarity, “Us and Them” lances the boil of working-class grievance and watches as the infection spreads to everyone in its path. Review: Haves and Have-Nots Collide in ‘Us and Them’ 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

The key figure in this regard is the working-class sapper Jack Firebrace, superbly played by Lee Ross, who learns by letter of the loss of his son to diptheria. Birdsong 2010-09-28T23:36:00Z

He was raised in south London, the son of working-class Irish immigrants, and his writing reflects this mongrel pedigree; welding his family’s cultural roots with the extrovert drama of the US cinema he loves. Three Billboards director Martin McDonagh: 'Little girls don’t have a Marlon Brando to emulate’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Neapolitan pizza, as a savory dish, came about in the late 18th and early 19th century in working-class neighborhoods. Some commonly accepted "truths" about the origins of Italian food may actually be myths 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

In most of the films we’re clearly in a working-class world. Art Review: You Must Remember This 2011-08-18T21:47:02Z

They were born in working-class Chicago to two first-generation Americans: their father Italian, their mother Greek, the family living in a “two flat,” with their aunt, uncle and cousins in the apartment upstairs. The rise and fall of the Podestas, Washington’s powerful political brother act 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Born in Westwood, New Jersey, Gandolfini was raised in a working-class, Italian-American family by a father who was a bricklayer and high school custodian and a mother who worked in a school cafeteria. Actor James Gandolfini, star of 'The Sopranos,' dies in Italy 2013-06-20T01:57:47Z

She, a self-aware, ambitious woman has taken a bastion of white British working-class tradition and made it her own. A good news story on Page 3 of the Sun, courtesy of black model Sylvia Barrie 2012-06-21T11:10:35Z

I speak from a working-class point of view, and I’m the scariest thing that’s possible in America: an intelligent articulate woman speaking from my own experience who is not representing a specific minority.” Penny Arcade is Still a Force in Edinburgh 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

His studio was more of a shed, really: a leaky, unheated ground-floor room of just 240 square feet in working-class southern Paris. Giacometti: Beguiled by Thin Men and Women 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

In the 80s I was a poor working-class boy from Kilburn, seemingly confident yet insecure underneath, aspiring for a better life. Seal: ‘Heidi Klum cooked schnitzel for me. Just the once’ 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

Sam Riley is an effectively despicable Pinkie and Andrea Riseborough touchingly vulnerable as Rose, the fellow working-class Catholic he lures into his vicious scheme. Brighton Rock ? review 2011-02-06T00:05:44Z

Namely, can an artist so wildly acclaimed, popular and wealthy still portray himself as a working-class loser? Critic?s Notebook: Louis C. K.?s Working-Class Roots and Success 2011-12-20T04:33:59Z

A coming-of-age tale starring Tessa Thompson and based on Mabry’s experience growing up in a Black working-class family in Tupelo, Miss., the movie won awards on the festival circuit, and aired on cable. ‘Pariah’ at 10: When Black Lesbian Characters Had the Spotlight 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

He grew up in a working-class area of the North Bronx, surrounded by Italian-Americans. William Melvin Kelley, Who Explored Race in Experimental Novels, Is Dead at 79 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

The rise of privately educated performers such as Lily Allen, Florence Welch and Chris Martin, it was suggested, spelled the end of working-class guitar heroes. James Blunt gets mother's backing in 'posh pop' row 2011-01-28T13:44:08Z

I think the idea that every woman's choices are inherently feminist is a fundamental misunderstanding of what feminism looks like for working-class, nonwhite and everyday women. Can we stop pointing out how famous women are aging? 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z

It follows Edwards from The Knick to the distinct subculture of the African American boarding house where he, though a gainfully employed professional, lives with working-class roomers who see him as an elitist snob. REVIEW: The Knick 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

She points out that it is easier to become an actor from a working-class background than, say, a barrister because "acting is a sublimely egalitarian world". Anne-Marie Duff: 'I wondered if I should lie about my background' 2013-05-19T05:00:03Z

“Kerouac was a working-class boy from Lowell, and it wasn’t too hard to make an identification,” Mr. Banks told the literary journal Ploughshares in 1993. Russell Banks, Novelist Steeped in the Working Class, Dies at 82 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

Related: Why working-class actors are a disappearing breed I did this story recently about how the acting profession in Britain has become very middle class. Michael Moore: ‘Trump inspires his side. It’s like Munich in 1932’ 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

Italian beef came to reflect the city itself — its identity as a hub for both working-class immigrants and the meatpacking business. Chicago’s Signature Sandwich, Italian Beef, Gets a Multicultural Update 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

What’s more, the early suppression of the labor movement often meant the disenfranchisement of working-class whites and blacks. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

Mr. Iommi, who is 63, was one of the four working-class teenagers who founded Black Sabbath in Birmingham, England, in the late 1960s. ArtsBeat: Black Sabbath Guitarist to Undergo Treatment for Lymphoma 2012-01-09T20:58:27Z

Berry was raised middle class, so the white working-class accent was a put-on in two ways. The triumph of Chuck Berry: At 90, the rock pioneer has a new album on the horizon 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

“Growing up in a poor, working-class family in Boyle Heights, with 12 kids, we had our fair share of piñata events.” New Southern California Exhibitions Reveal Riches of Art and Tradition 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

I didn’t know whether to run and hide or to embrace it, but deep inside I knew I deserved to be listened to, just like all other working-class women; people who are struggling; single mums. ‘I was given a second chance’: six people describe their life changes 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

Southern states usually relied on working-class jobs like textiles, cotton and tobacco. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

Now, that economic system has left many working-class and middle-class whites behind. Cultural appropriation: It's about more than pho and sombreros 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

It’s also a show that reflects the diversity of working-class America in a humorous microcosm. Best of 2016: From “The Crown” to “Superstore,” here are the 15 best series of the year 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

Acting was a kind of rescue for him, he says in that deep, rich, growly voice, and he's grateful that his working-class Washington Heights household was also a place of culture. Ron Perlman on Pacific Rim: 'It's not like Hellboy' 2013-07-11T15:21:58Z

A horrendous trick of fate drove him out of there two decades ago, and he turned his back on his difficult working-class family. Books Of the Times: Tana French?s Thriller ?Faithful Place? 2010-07-11T21:25:00Z

The Chicago Housing Authority then made space for the poor by evicting working-class families for whom the projects were initially designed. A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

I was this funny little kid from working-class London. Twiggy: `It could have gone terribly wrong' 2010-03-29T20:25:00Z

There is not a trace of that borough in Adam’s voice, and in a ludicrous casting choice, Richard Dreyfuss plays his father, a security guard with emphysema who embodies solid working-class values. Movie Review: In ‘Paranoia,’ a Spy Infiltrates a Rival’s Business Empire 2013-08-15T22:26:22Z

A sensitive little boy in a working-class family, he yearned to perform, especially to dance. Using Shakespeare to Ease the Trauma of War 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Ford’s social symbolism isn’t especially subtle or measured: working-class white America in effect gets the “basket of deplorables” treatment here, give or take Michael Shannon’s sympathetic but coarsely law-bending sheriff. Nocturnal Animals caps off Hollywood's year of toxic masculinity 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Indeed, the story of how soccer escaped its gritty, clannish, working-class roots and became an enormous global industry is a central cultural and economic parable of our time. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

At first, Anne Renton's "The Perfect Family" seems like a working-class Catholic spin on an episode of "Desperate Housewives." 'The Perfect Family' is perfectly satisfying 2012-05-10T20:28:05Z

Tyler’s mom and her new partner are moving West from the working-class suburb in Wisconsin where they live. ‘Small Town Wisconsin’ Review: A Father-Son Trip Goes Awry 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Young arrived in Manchester, capital of the Industrial Revolution, in 1840 in time to witness the formation of the National Charter Association, the first working-class political party, amidst epic social turmoil.  Mitt Romney: Disgrace to Mormonism 2012-10-28T23:00:00Z

But in "Captive State" it is an interracial alliance of people, working-class and poor, straight and gay, male and female, fighting back in their own way. "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

But they're also working against a story that ticks all the boxes of working-class despair and then some. In Showtime's small town drama "American Rust," abandon all hope ye who break down here 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z

The show, set in the 1970s, follows the Clearlys, a working-class, Irish-Catholic family with eight boys, three bedrooms and one bathroom. What’s on TV: ‘The Kids Are Alright’ and ‘The Blair Witch Project’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Apparently he was even better in "The Way Back," a 2020 sports drama about a working-class guy who claws his way to redemption by coaching high school basketball. Has Ben Affleck's"Deep Water" left you asking why? Look back at "Gigli" 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

In the Mission, working-class residents are competing with newcomers willing to offer more than the landlord is asking, and to pay a year’s rent up front. 10 things everyone should know about what it’s really like to live on the streets 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

In a statement issued on Friday, the Royal Court’s artistic director, Vicky Featherstone, said she was “rocked to the core by accusations of censorship and the banning of a working-class female voice.” Royal Court Reverses Decision to Cancel ‘Rita, Sue and Bob Too’ 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

When the majority of people who are food insecure in this country are working-class poor. ‘What we’ve seen since covid has been a precipitous increase in need,’ says Feeding America CEO 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

Each of them portrays two members of working-class New England families. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

Because he had this very old-fashioned attitude to being gay, like a lot of working-class men at the time. 'I don’t want a publicist': Dougray Scott on film, fame and his father's war stories 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

The premise is sinister and simple: One night, the mostly working-class and immigrant residents of a Paris high-rise discover that it’s not just dark outside. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z

For the next seven decades Roanoke thrived as a rail town, and many neighborhoods still feature the modest, tightly spaced housing of 20th-century working-class America. In Roanoke, Va., discovering a gateway to outdoor adventure 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

People in the public eye with working-class accents are constantly singled out. Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing a working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hilton’s mission with his Fox News program, he said, is to create a working-class coalition uniting supporters of Mr. Trump and Bernie Sanders with the rage that fueled the Brexit movement. Silicon Valley Now Has Its Own Populist Pundit 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

“For the speech, I was in a strip club in Parma,” a working-class Cleveland suburb. Chris Arnade photographs the ‘back-row kids.’ He knew they could elect Trump. 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

The museum has built a reputation for celebrating Black artists and working-class communities over the last decade, but now it is putting this work on pause. Underground Museum in Los Angeles Has Closed 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

To him, the mods' conspicuous consumption was a form of defiant working-class aspiration, while to another early mod, Steve Sparks, it was spawned by art school beatniks. The A-Z of Mod by Paolo Hewitt and Mark Baxter – review 2012-06-01T10:00:01Z

I ask because I recently took part in a debate on Radio 3's Night Waves about the upsurge in working-class plays and movies that took place in the late 1950s and early 60s. Michael Billington on working-class theatre 2013-01-25T21:00:03Z

The Rodham home is more modest, and in a more working-class neighborhood, than the Biden home in leafy Green Ridge, blocks from historic mansions. Scranton became shorthand for the past. Its reality is far more complicated. 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

Treme is The Wire creator David Simon's exploration of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on one particular working-class neighbourhood of New Orleans. TV review: Treme 2011-02-18T19:19:26Z

Haidt, a lifelong liberal, was baffled at why so many poor and working-class voters kept supporting conservative politicians when it was clearly against their interest. So, you think reason guides your politics? Think again 2012-05-17T19:15:01Z

The words of a passionate, socialist, working-class young man of 18 leapt from the pages. The pleasant-looking killers who took my father’s life 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

Do you tune in to EastEnders for its intricate plotting, richly drawn characters or heartbreaking depictions of a slowly disintegrating working-class London? Hatewatching: shouting about rubbish TV on Twitter 2012-06-22T23:05:00Z

National tours of major plays are rare, and it was a treat to see Stephen Karam’s first-class drama of one family’s working-class angst in the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater. Perspective | Best of theater 2018: Distinguished visitors and hometown heroes 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Despite these flaws, the book succeeds in drawing the ineluctable conclusion that poor and working-class women, particularly when of color, lead a profoundly different life in America than their wealthier and white counterparts. Review | ‘Hood Feminism’ makes a convincing — and urgent — case about how race and class divide women 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

Then it veered into “Streetcar Named Desire” territory, as Ms. Blanchett’s character warred with the working-class fiancé of her sister, and became increasingly unhinged. Scene City: Woody Allen Skips His Film’s Premiere Party 2013-07-24T17:46:32Z

Fences August Wilson’s classic drama about a working-class African American father and his family in 1950s Pittsburgh. L.A. theater openings, May 14-21: 'The Old Man and the Old Moon' and more 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

The Grammy winner was born into a working-class family and worked as a plumber while pursuing his singing career. Joe Cocker, raspy-voiced British singer, dies at 70 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Finney was the new roaring boy of that high-spirited, colourful decade – cheeky, northern and working-class. Albert Finney obituary 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

A year later, I rang the doorbell of her new studio, in Brussels’s working-class Anderlecht neighborhood — the first stop on a week’s exploration of the city’s popping contemporary art scene. Brussels emerges as Europe’s epicenter of contemporary art 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

And I did so with scores of other '"ordinary'" working-class kids, many of whom I still work with in my various stage plays. 100% arts funding cut? This Newcastle budget is an act of vandalism 2012-12-18T15:45:01Z

Almost all of Kitty’s patrons were nonwhite—black, Indian, and what is known in South Africa as “colored”—and from poor or working-class backgrounds. Lost and Found Photos from a South African Portrait Studio 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

Written and directed by Paul Andrew Williams, “Unfinished Song” belongs to the school of “The Full Monty” and “Calendar Girls” in its vision of stolid, working-class Britons banding together. Movie Review : In ‘Unfinished Song,’ Vanessa Redgrave Lives for Music 2013-06-20T21:51:31Z

It was a very rural, working-class upbringing and one of my earliest memories is walking through a cornfield with my dad. Meera Syal: My family values 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z

It’s also, in its depiction of the economic insecurity of a working-class family, a perfect show for Pennsylvanians. A Netflix show about Pennsylvania — boxing, hoagies and DeVito not included 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

In the early 19th century, working-class “Bowery B’hoys” in New York City attended the theater in droves and recited Shakespeare by heart — correcting actors when they missed a line. Long Before ‘Hamilton’ Brouhaha, Theater Was Anything but Polite 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

These were brief and humorous vignettes of the serious issues faced by Jess and Joyce Semple, a fictional working-class Black couple living in Harlem. With threats of nuclear war and climate disaster growing, America’s "bunker fantasy" is inadequate 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

A working-class comedy that doesn't shy away from the struggles of having no money, hating your family and barely making the breadline, it's HBO's answer to Roseanne. Lucky Louie: box set review 2013-07-04T14:00:01Z

Not all white working-class voters are rural Appalachians, as Mr Vance’s family is, but the problems he describes are widespread. Promises, promises 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Fast forward to today, and the idea that white working-class women are opting for single motherhood as the best decision for their families is suddenly a great idea. Christopher Columbus Syndrome strikes again: No, white women did not “discover” single motherhood 2014-04-25T16:30:00Z

“The Fighter” relates the story of working-class, boxing brothers from a former Massachusetts mill town. Film: Hollywood?s Whiteout Year: Few Blacks on Silver Screen 2011-02-12T06:53:01Z

The story begins with the discovery of a suitcase in a house under renovation in a working-class section of Dublin, now on the cusp of gentrification. Review | Hear it to believe it: The audio version of Tana French ‘Faithful Place’ is perfect 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Still, if much of Welsh’s material is lurid, he tells us a great deal about working-class Edinburgh. Irvine Welsh is back with another brazen novel: ‘A Decent Ride’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

An emotionally and at times physically violent story about a working-class family falling apart in New Britain, Conn., “Blood From a Stone” is the Off Broadway season opener for the New Group. Tapping a Rough-and-Tumble Life 2010-12-25T04:00:48Z

Published months before Donald Trump's election, it was perfectly timed for the zeitgeist, and Vance's extended personal anecdote suddenly became the authoritative text about enigmatic working-class whites, all presumptive Trump supporters. The chattering classes got the "Hillbilly Elegy" book wrong—and they’re getting the movie wrong, too 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z

To anyone who thinks The Boss’ current persona as a working-class hero standing up against a rigged system was always there, think again. Steven Van Zandt explores his fascinating and unlikely life 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

The culture stems from a working-class black culture that was largely a mystery to many New Orleanians, "even me," he said. Mardi Gras Indians on display at Jazz Fest 2012-05-04T15:13:40Z

“When people try to talk about the white working-class community as an outsider, the white working-class generally reacts negatively,” he says. Everyone is reading books trying to explain Trump voters 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

I'm not sure if iLL Manors hails the return of working-class cinema, which we haven't had for a while. iLL Manors – reviews 2012-05-26T23:03:05Z

Perhaps Connery’s working-class background helped keep his feet on the ground. Sir Sean Connery obituary 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

Bush got a bad rap from some music journalists for being a dreamy middle-class girl rather than an angry working-class bloke. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Narrated by Larry, the 17-year-old son of a dying, abusive fireman, the novel sketches out a version of working-class Long Island that is brutal and bereft of kindness, a sort of social wreckage. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

But unlike Barr, her support of Trump is driven less by belief in rightwing conspiracy and more by the belief that he’d do more for her white, working-class Michigan family than Hillary Clinton. Is it possible to separate Roseanne from its controversial star? 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

Adapted from Bob Glaudini's acclaimed off-Broadway play, the film is a tale of friendship and betrayal involving two working-class New York City couples. Brits loom large in Toronto film festival lineup 2010-07-28T11:56:00Z

It is telling, for example, that no female equivalent exists of the heroic tale of the working-class boy made good. The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

As a kid growing up in the working-class Black world, you wanted a secure job at the post office or teaching school. It’s Never Too Late to Record Your First Album 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

He is the son of an upper middle-class Northern black mother and a father with obscure working-class Southern origins. Review: ‘Song of Solomon,’ by Toni Morrison 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

It's also, sneakingly, a more personal story – informed by Wallop's aristocratic parents and working-class in-laws. Consumed: How Shopping Fed the Class System by Harry Wallop – review 2013-01-18T09:01:01Z

What's always appealed to me was to tell a story about my own experience: a generational thing about my time in Belfast, a particular slice of dockside, working-class, Protestant life. Kenneth Branagh: wallowing in Wallander 2012-06-17T17:00:01Z

The cop aims to use state violence and incarceration to crush black civil-rights protests, while the capitalist’s “master plan” is to drive a wedge between educated black élites and the working-class. The Fires That Forged Iceberg Slim 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Born into a working-class family in Stoke – he kept traces of the accent all his life – he had a good practical musical education, studying violin and cello, and playing the organ in local churches. The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z

Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing – my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. What I see in the mirror: Gary Kemp 2012-06-15T21:59:17Z

That is unfair for the working-class and poor people. Li Cheng on making "José," an epic gay love story set in Guatemala 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

The joys and sorrows of a large working-class Irish emigrant family are amply and honestly covered, including shocking casual domestic violence. Me and Mine: A Warm-hearted Memoir of a London Irish Family by Anna May Mangan ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:02Z

He's happy with his childhood in working-class north-east England, and doesn't want anything to change. The Diary of a Dr Who Addict by Paul Magrs 2010-05-21T23:07:00Z

In my initial review I wrote about how heavily sadness hangs on this Pennsylvania working-class hamlet. "Mare of Easttown" is twisty until the very end, but the best part is its grace 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

Lind argues that beginning in the 1970s a neoliberal overclass seized control of the levers of power in American society, weakening or destroying the structures that served to protect the nation’s working-class people. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

I was a drama student, 19 years old, and it was a promenade performance about the lives of a group of working-class people in the north, in which Dury was the narrator. The best performance I've ever seen: Emma Rice 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

Indeed, Southern states often attracted industry based on the fact that they had crushed working-class activism in ways that ultimately produced a pliable – and fearful – labor force. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

"I wanted to write about what it's like for a woman growing up in working-class Britain, and I don't shy away from that." Why we are watching: Kerry Hudson 2012-06-23T23:05:17Z

Now he started writing lyrics of his own and rapping about working-class existence on the margins of London. Devlin: 'You've got to be hard on yourself. It's all or nothing' 2013-02-03T00:05:05Z

She summons salty, been-there swagger for “Mustang Ridge,” “The Wheels of Laredo” and “Hard Luck,” and expresses unguarded affection for her working-class father and upbringing on “The Day My Heart Goes Still” and “Rich.” Tanya Tucker Would Rather Be Celebrated While She’s Alive 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

For a hostel in a working-class neighborhood in Paris, he said, “I used only French slang words and different types of typography.” The Hostel as Art Gallery, and Pipeline to an Arts Community 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

But Hollywood may also start paying more heed to white, working-class Trump supporters, on and off screen. Trump v Hollywood? Don't expect to see the culture war play out on screen 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

This muted work is mesmerizing and enigmatic: It suggests a muralist paean to working-class life on the sea but lacks the expected energy of celebration. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

He is an outsider, being an officer from a working-class background, but our knowledge of his thoughts is often alienating. Regeneration by Pat Barker 2012-08-17T21:54:01Z

Sarandon is from a working-class New Jersey family, the oldest of nine children, who was sent to a Catholic grammar school and told early on that she had “an overabundance of original sin”. Susan Sarandon: ‘The good news and bad news about Hollywood is that they’re not political’ 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

For her, that means honoring parents and speaking up to them, favoring salt-of-the-earth working-class blacks over the starched Buppies and, at the end of the play, praising Jesus in scripture and song. Madea Meets the Ku Klux Klan 2011-11-17T15:13:07Z

“Douglas is incredibly entrenched in that great Scottish working-class tradition of storytelling, but he’s coming at it from being an outsider in your own country,” he said. How ‘Shuggie Bain’ Became This Year’s Breakout Debut 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

Jackie’s 5th Amendment in Park Slope, a working-class tavern famous for its buckets of beer, closed last year. A Sobering Future for New York’s Dive Bars 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

As Martha Lucy, an art historian, put it in her catalog essay, speaking of Valadon’s modeling, “working-class status meant that there were fewer moral impediments to pursuing such disreputable employment.” Revolutionary Model Turned Uncompromising Painter 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

A wearisome mix of miserableness and dark humor, “Mammuth” paints a depressing portrait of a class-bound France while trying to provide a measure of redemptive freedom for its working-class hero, played by Gérard Depardieu. | 'Mammuth': G?rard Depardieu in ?Mammuth? ? Review 2011-09-30T04:23:03Z

Here, then, is that rare sight: an American working-class man, happy on the job. | 'Contraband': ?Contraband,? With Mark Wahlberg - Review 2012-01-12T23:08:20Z

On a dreary Wednesday morning, the sky low and bruised, Moore and I met to take a walking tour of the Boroughs, the traditionally working-class area of Northampton where he grew up. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

McQueen, whose real first name was Lee, the youngest son of a taxi driver and teacher who grew up in a tower block in Stratford, remained extremely proud of his working-class East End roots. Alexander McQueen exhibition becomes New York's latest blockbuster 2011-08-09T17:53:56Z

Still, Kelly, who came from working-class Pittsburgh, wasn’t afraid of beauty. Gene Kelly as Choreographer, in Lincoln Center Series 2012-07-13T16:19:26Z

Does she worry that the current climate of austerity will put working-class students off becoming actors? Maxine Peake: 'People go to therapy. I've got a hoover' – interview 2013-03-24T00:02:01Z

The urbanist Jane Jacobs knew as much, but her “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” was published in 1961, after evictions of working-class public housing residents were already well underway. A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Was he never tempted to play up the working-class hero? Peter Mullan: the swot who lost the plot 2011-01-19T21:31:00Z

He refers to the learning curve of his constituency in Doncaster, and explores his central theme that Labour lost more working-class votes than middle-class votes in the last two elections. David and Ed Miliband on sibling rivalry 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

The working-class girl batters her way into Oxford University, feeling like the ill-fated Jude the Obscure in Thomas Hardy's novel, except "I was determined not to hang myself." Jeanette Winterson's memoir of the redemptive power of books 2012-03-07T22:47:07Z

She is a working-class hero who refuses to accept her victimization. All hail Melissa McCarthy, Hollywood's indestructible comic superwoman 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Courtesy of Tate Britain LS Lowry – the quintessential painter of northern, working-class life – is among the most divisive of British artists. Tate exhibition to pay homage to LS Lowry 2013-01-15T19:16:15Z

At the time, he created another character too: a figure called Steve "Canal" Jones, a working-class white male born in Niagara Falls who creates modest wood collages that he refers to as "hillbilly cubism." Art and race at the Whitney: Rethinking the Donelle Woolford piece 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

The Hairy Ape Eugene O'Neill's classic Expressionist drama about a working-class man who questions his place in society. L.A. theater openings, May 8-15: 'The Day Shall Declare It' and more 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Principally, we will need to recognise the contributions and the losses of the UK’s minority and working-class people, above all. Patterns of pain: what Covid-19 can teach us about how to be human 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Himmelfarb was a member of an accomplished intellectual clan that sprung from working-class roots. Gertrude Himmelfarb, Conservative Historian of Ideas, Dies at 97 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

Migration seems most difficult for working-class Jews, many of whom live in suburbs with larger Muslim populations, because France's healthcare, education and childcare benefits fill important gaps in their budgets. French Jews considering move to Israel worry about harder life 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Light-years from Broadway, Aunt Peg’s Lily Playhouse offers cookie-cutter musical comedies written on the fly for working-class folk. Review | In Elizabeth Gilbert’s ‘City of Girls,’ a young woman discovers the joys of sex 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

Time’s Up also helps defuse criticism that the spotlight on the #MeToo movement has been dominated by the accusers of high-profile men, while the travails of working-class women have been overlooked. Powerful Hollywood Women Unveil Anti-Harassment Action Plan 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

In California, a comprehensive, community-owned development project consciously links individual and collective wealth building in the diverse working-class Diamond neighborhood in southeast San Diego. Stop-and-frisk, eviscerated 2012-05-29T19:30:00Z

There were lots of fantastic working-class, activist actors around me, and I was constantly embarrassed because I didn't know anything. Mark Rylance: 'You have to move into the chaos' 2013-07-01T06:30:01Z

Here, then, are 10 of the greatest big-screen tales of working-class heroes taking on the world with an acoustic six-string and a microphone. Hootenanny: 10 Great Folk-Music Movies 2013-12-09T10:45:23Z

Their father’s working-class family emigrated from Sweden in 1907, and his grandfather went to work in a Waltham, Mass., watch factory. Master breadmaker Mark Furstenberg now content to change his tiny slice of the world 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

He was raised working-class in Salford, near Manchester, and first heard hints of the stateside musical revolution by pressing his ear to his bedpost on Sunday nights. Graham Nash Has a Few More Songs Before He Goes 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

Alex Rosario is a baseball star from a working-class Dominican family. From Missing Persons to Mistaken Identities, Books About Seeing and Being Seen 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z

A celebration of spinning vinyl and twirling teenagers, “Northern Soul” captures a brief, blazing moment in 1970s England when the passionate lyrics and addictive beats of American soul ignited dance floors and working-class dreams. Review: ‘Northern Soul’ Shows ’70s England Through a Music Lens 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Their money now underwrites about two-thirds of the museum’s budget and the counties are a mix of demographics, affluent and working-class, both white and people of color. Has the Detroit Institute of Arts Lost Touch With Its Home Town? 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

The festivities were held in a part of town little associated with art, one of Havana’s oldest neighborhoods, working-class Casablanca, across the harbor from the city center. Havana’s Vital Biennial Was Trumped by a Stifled Voice 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

But just because “Good People” is about South Boston, a site notorious for racial strife, doesn’t mean that Mr. Lindsay-Abaire is going to set a match to working-class prejudices. | 'Good People': Been Back to the Old Neighborhood? 2011-03-04T03:09:46Z

Over four or five years, he made such classics as Up the Junction, Cathy Come Home, and his first feature film, Poor Cow, all stories of working-class life. Ken Loach: 'the ruling class are cracking the whip' 2011-08-28T18:00:02Z

Cooking then was a distinctly working-class job, and not an especially reputable one. How American Chefs in the 1970s and ’80s Created a Revolution 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

The costumes and art, with their deep colors and stylized shabbiness and sumptuous austerity, are like a Prada ad for working-class gloom. “My Brilliant Friend,” Reviewed: A Prada Ad for Working-Class Gloom, but with Shades of Humble Tenderness 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

Then, of course, there is the District of Columbia: the working-class, majority-Black city full of families, public employees, artists and service-industry workers. How Roy Wood Jr. crushed the toughest room in comedy 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

But the Vulture is also the biggest enemy facing Spider-Man, who — as this movie reminds you — is a working-class kid turned superhero. Review: Spider-Man (Again) and All That Sticky Kid Stuff 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Likewise, Critchley is what one might call a “working-class philosopher,” by which I mean he sees philosophy as a proletarian concern rather than an elite activity to be practiced in ivory towers. Simon Critchley on football, philosophy and his new book 'What We Think About When We Think About Soccer' 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

The comedy is part of Simon's trilogy of plays centering around the working-class Jerome family, and particularly its son Eugene. Jason Alexander returns to 'Broadway Bound' as director 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

She became the project leader for studies on the working-class literature of Britain and Ireland. Hanna Behrend obituary 2011-01-03T18:07:17Z

The scars are overlooked because of both a pervasive tendency to ignore Black working-class women’s pain and also because of the women’s own fears of the repercussions of exposure. Grief, Pain and the Lingering Impact of Trauma on Black Women’s Bodies 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

I write this as a working-class, English punk rocker, who is happily married to a middle-class, Nigerian woman. Cultural diversity is a fact. Let's celebrate it together 2010-12-26T00:07:02Z

"You are a Spanish aristocrat, while I am only a working-class girl." Digested read: In the Name of Love by Katie Price 2012-06-24T18:30:01Z

Worthy as they may be, they’ve given ballast to white working-class tribalism. Does an Intellectual History of the Trump Era Exist? It Does Now 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Osborne’s drama about the tempestuous romance between the working-class Jimmy and the genteel Alison caused a sensation when it made its debut at the Royal Court Theater in 1956. Theater Review: ?Look Back in Anger,? Starring Matthew Rhys 2012-02-03T03:03:00Z

He becomes especially animated when talking about what he sees as the overinflated concerns of the Black middle class being given more attention than those of poor and working-class Black people. A Black Republican tries to bring in Black voters to the GOP 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

Wainwright saw her mission as bringing the show back down to earth, back to “being about the working-class people who really would live in a street like that”. From The Archers to HBO: how Sally Wainwright conquered TV 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

Over a prolific decade, Jonathan Evison has been assessing America through novels about working-class folks — home health aides, lawn workers. A Fateful Train Ride Connects Eras and Cultures in This Novel 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

The New York-based designer grew up in the Detroit suburb of Allen Park, a working-class community about 15 miles downriver from the beleaguered, but rebounding, city. Can a high-end boutique prosper in Detroit? John Varvatos has a vision. 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

At 97 Orchard, these were working-class lives, made tougher by the Depression. Lower East Side Tenement Museum Welcomes a Former Resident 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

She was born in California’s rural San Joaquin Valley to working-class parents whom she describes as “ethical rather than political.” As Museums Become Her Ally, Suzanne Lacy Brings Her Activism Inside 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Raised in a working-class family in Detroit, Mr. Johnson hit the ground running as an artist before he was out of his teens. Ray Johnson Defies Categories 20 Years After His Death 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

She was born Helen Mironoff, the daughter of a civil-servant father descended from Russian aristocrats who had lost everything, and grew up working-class. Nothing like a dame: The splendor of Helen Mirren 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

The largely autobiographical story begins in the 1980s, when a psychologically damaged young woman with working-class immigrant parents gets accepted to a prestigious college. Beyond ‘Crazy Rich Asians’: Angie Wang Makes a Movie 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Despite the couple's enormous wealth and success, they come from working-class backgrounds and continue to be seen as such. Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing a working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

When I was a child, we lived on Cobbold Road in Shepherds Bush, a working-class neighbourhood in west London. Steve McQueen: 'Black people are weirdly missing from the narrative' 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

But during times of great economic upheaval there's always a chance, a glimmer of hope for working-class people and poor people to band together across lines of race. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

Jessica Winter’s intense second novel, “The Fourth Child,” centers on the adoption of one of Ceausescu’s children by an average, working-class mother of three from Buffalo. Welcome to the Family. Good Luck Fitting In. 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

It’s her mission, she has said, to tell the stories of working-class women. Growing Up in the Margins Without Being Marginalized 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Harry Ostro, the beloved Brooklyn high school football coach who launched working-class ragamuffins into manhood, would have appreciated the teamwork involved in his burial with full military honors. His players, in their 80s, bid fond farewell to their 100-year-old coach 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

For all their posturing, her characters, anonymous working-class youth from Belfast, ache. Review: Dancing That Unfolds Like a Prayer 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

These arresting stories, all set in a working-class town in eastern British Columbia, where D. W. Wilson grew up, concern “the nuances of rural life, the divide between rednecks and bluecollars.” ‘Once You Break a Knuckle,’ by D. W. Wilson, and More 2014-01-29T22:31:57Z

While he eats in and writes about high-end restaurants and ambitious, would-be celebrity chefs, his heart is in the vernacular gastronomy of immigrant and working-class neighborhoods. Review: Tastes of Los Angeles in ‘City of Gold’ 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Yet as musician Bob Dylan recalled of the mostly working-class region of Minnesota where he was raised, nobody was much interested in building shelters because, "It could turn neighbor against neighbor and friend against friend." With threats of nuclear war and climate disaster growing, America’s "bunker fantasy" is inadequate 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

Why isn’t being a white working-class male an identity in itself? Samantha Bee and Jane Pauley Are Breaking the News 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, six out of 10 working-class marriages end within 20 years, compared with only 22% of marriages where the wife has a bachelor’s degree. Absent father no longer: men confront stereotypes to become involved parents 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

Raised in the working-class immigrant community of East Flatbush, his father incarcerated for life on a murder charge from the year after he was born, Shmurda opted for gang life. Bobby Shmurda’s New Lust for Life 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

A gritty, fact-based fairy tale set in working-class Lowell, Mass., "The Fighter" is quite effective as drama — that is, until it abruptly becomes an underdog sports movie in the final act. The Week Ahead: Christmas TV and stage shows are Seattle-area highlights 2010-12-15T23:52:13Z

Vance uses the lens of his childhood to analyze the despair and stagnation of his white working-class America. New in Paperback: ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ ‘Compass’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Down-and-Outs Are Center Stage Once Again A bad economy has inspired a number of new plays on Broadway that feature working-class characters. 2011 Tony Awards 2011-05-03T15:55:38Z

“Unbeknownst to us,” he says, “we were part of a historical moment in theater, because we were all working-class boys.” The Importance of Being Astonished 2011-01-09T02:00:58Z

I don’t think there’s anyone who’s that good, who’s got that amount of integrity — both on and off screen — and I knew she wouldn’t be patronizing or sentimental about a working-class mother in this situation. With ‘Three Billboards,’ director Martin McDonagh shows his softer side 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

I knew Bevin as a formidable working-class trade union leader and Leebaert has him right. How the United States Achieved World Leadership 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

The Oaks is a converted hotel next to a pawnshop, in Carlington, a working-class neighbourhood on the west side of Ottawa, Canada. The shelter that gives wine to alcoholics | Tina Rosenberg 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

In another era he was a magnetic star at George Balanchine’s New York City Ballet and a personality in the popular culture who often appeared on television, a symbol of working-class grit amid ballet-world chiffon. Edward Villella and the Miami City Ballet Board 2011-11-13T23:07:55Z

Hailing from a working-class background, McDermid has always packed her stories with a streetwise humor and a fierce impatience with how most institutions still favor the rich, the White, the male. Review | Val McDermid’s new novel is a delightful throwback, complete with a retro song list 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Playing a supposedly ravenous eager beaver from a working-class Brooklyn background who will do anything to succeed, he ambles through the role like an obedient robot. Movie Review: In ‘Paranoia,’ a Spy Infiltrates a Rival’s Business Empire 2013-08-15T22:26:22Z

Merlo was a working-class New Jersey boy from an Italian family and a charming young war hero. ‘Leading Men,’ a Novel About Tennessee Williams and His Lover, Casts a Spell From the Start 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

My mother, Mary, was deeply ashamed of her working-class roots, although her parents were decent, honest people. Richard O'Brien: My family values 2013-01-25T17:44:00Z

In an afterword, Oates explains that “The Sacrifice” is “strongly linked” to her 1969 novel, “them,” which is about working-class life in Detroit in the years prior to the civil unrest of 1967. Book review: ‘The Sacrifice,’ by Joyce Carol Oates, inspired by Tawana Brawley case 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Suddenly, there’s a rift between white working-class Americans and those they view as condescending coastal liberals–or rather, a rift has been steadily growing, and too many were too slow to see it. Diversity Waits on a Green Light 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The lyric was me railing against what I saw as a flippancy pervading the country with the rise of Britpop, a wholesale adoption – and bastardisation – of working-class culture. 'If you tolerate this ...': Nicky Wire on library closures 2011-02-07T22:00:01Z

It attracts everyone from stoned Valley high schoolers to the Los Angeles Lakers, young working-class families to those old enough to remember when bowling was televised every Saturday afternoon on ABC. Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

By age 6, Ms. Riva wanted to be an actress, but her working-class parents discouraged her aspirations and she became an apprentice to a seamstress. Emmanuelle Riva, oldest lead actress to be nominated for Academy Award, dies at 89 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

"Born in the U.S.A." is the antithesis of the American Dream-chasing optimism that listeners construe the rock number as; the song captures the desperate feelings of a working-class citizen in post-Vietnam America. 25 famous songs with misunderstood meanings 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

“They are in fact contributing to the epidemic of gentrification that is decimating working-class communities and communities of color in cities across the globe.” Art and Real Estate Collide at Events in the Bronx and at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

There are many moments that change the trajectory of Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winning film about how a working-class clan commands the household of a more prosperous family. I’m a Grown Man, and ‘The Invisible Man’ Made Me Scream 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

First, many voters, especially working-class white men, are so fed up with Washington orthodoxy that they are willing to back almost any other alternative. A guide to a hopeful 2016: a Guardian list of things to look forward to 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

It would be the largest arena on the globe, and it would sit on the geographic heart of Rio like a giant buckle, connecting the wealthy south and the working-class north. With the 2016 Summer Olympics just a year away, what Brazil can learn from World Cup 2014 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

She has an ugly confrontation with one of her father’s working-class friends; he hits her with crude sexual insults, she responds with classist cheap shots. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2, Episode 8: A Shock to the System 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Warren was a 24-year-old actor when he had the idea for a television series set on a working-class street in northwestern England, where he had grown up. Tony Warren, Creator of ‘Coronation Street,’ Dies at 79 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

A beefy, working-class guy whose paternal tenderness has been stripped raw, Farrior at first seems weakened by grief; but when Helen, Barr’s attorney, visits him, he is stirred to a fury that sends her packing. Jack Reacher: Tom Cruise Picks the Wrong Week for a Thriller About a Mass Killing 2012-12-18T14:00:44Z

“We’re all working-class stiffs, chasing paycheck to paycheck, and the process has worn them down.” Hillary Clinton’s Lonesome White Male Supporters 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

At first, the salon's Beatles-inspired makeover was a little too radical for many locals in the working-class city neighborhood of Flores. Beatles barber turns shop into tribute to Fab Four 2011-07-29T15:38:20Z

Purposefully angry at Leveson, sharp on Have I Got News For You and The Charlotte Church Show, and one of the few modern celebrities who actually likes ordinary working-class women. Kerridge, Charlotte Church, Hurts: this week's new tracks 2013-03-11T06:00:00Z

Mr. Levine was born in Detroit and worked in Cadillac and Chevy factories as a young man; his evocations of working-class life are moving and exacting. Critic?s Notebook: Making Rare Appearance: People and Their Appetites 2011-08-10T04:28:58Z

Mitchell’s mind-bending novel follows the fortunes of Holly Sykes, an English working-class girl who hears voices and receives visits from ghosts, as her story proceeds from the year 1984 to 2043. Fall books: 37 new titles to add to your reading list 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Not long after this glamorous alien emerged came a more working-class punk subculture for which rebellion was a raison d’être. What the Mullet Means Now 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

The red SUV she’s in whizzes along West North Avenue, once a nerve center of a vibrant working-class community filled with black-owned businesses and families forging their way in an unwelcoming world. Anna Deavere Smith returns to Baltimore, with a mission 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

"The notion that working-class Dublin had disappeared because people had more money - it doesn't work that way," he said. 'The Commitments' coming to the London stage 2013-04-23T11:44:11Z

Here, a cannibalistic clan of working-class mussel-pickers murder and eat the rich. Sex, ghosts money and sainthood – now playing at Cannes 2016 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Raised by a working-class family in South Dakota, his presence at Westish almost a fluke, Henry possesses the creeping dread of someone who knows how quickly something can be taken from him. 'The Art of Fielding': Win, lose, improvise 2011-09-21T22:59:04Z

The movie unblinkingly chronicles the chaotic life and times of rock’s most notorious cut-up, from his miserable working-class childhood through his years as a drunken clown to his latter-day sobriety. Critic?s Notebook: Tribeca Turns 10: Films on Rebels, Rock and Real Life 2011-04-14T12:00:00Z

Arnold Wesker, a British playwright who drew on his heritage as a working-class Jew to create dramas that captured the dialogue and struggles of the common man, died April 12 in Brighton, England. Arnold Wesker, British playwright who plumbed working-class lives, dies at 83 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

I would assume that the four patterns of bias also show up against working-class women. Tightrope-walking and “gender judo”: What women have to do to get ahead 2014-03-20T22:59:00Z

“Will honest working-class pluck and self-reliance triumph over spoiled upper-class privilege?” What’s on TV Tuesday 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

I made horror accessible by writing about working-class characters,' he says. James Herbert interview: from the archive, 14 February 1993 2013-03-21T10:48:00Z

The Democratic Party coalition that put Roosevelt and his heirs in office included working-class Americans, Black and white. Steps in the Left Direction 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

It’s a vibrant ecosystem on the margins of society, teeming with working-class craftsmen and daredevils. My streaming gem: why you should watch Pit Stop 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

One of the new-style working-class heroes and shooting stars of the 1960s, the actor Albert Finney, who has died aged 82, enjoyed a rich and varied career that never quite fulfilled its early promise. Albert Finney obituary 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the artist grew up in the South Bronx in what he calls a working-class family. Beyoncé’s Pregnancy Photographer Is Opening an ‘Anti-Trump’ Art Show 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

For example, professors at state universities who primarily educated working-class or first-generation students. Gary Shteyngart on How Hedge Funders See the World 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Isi is a privileged billionaire's daughter who makes a mutually beneficial arrangement with a working-class boxer, Ossi to date long enough to provoke her parents to her to pursue her dreams to become a chef. What's new on Netflix in February, from "Altered Carbon" to "Narcos: Mexico" 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

There are all kinds of reasons why, if you are a working-class boy, you are not going to be counted. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

At the same time, I remained afraid of thwarting the working-class view of success I grew up with. None of this was supposed to happen until I got thin 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z

I'm at a working-class comprehensive in a suburb of Bristol and I'm dressed like a PG Wodehouse character. The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z

It’s an ideal place for professors, software engineers, and investors to raise their kids, but it’s not accessible to most working-class families. Our worst year yet, in the best-ranked school district 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

A central dilemma is Dre’s battle between his financial aspirations and racial authenticity, his moving-on-up and his loyalty to his working-class roots. What TV Says About Race and Money 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Back in the 1970s I was teaching English at Lycée Saint-Exupéry in a working-class quarter of Marseille. Review | We may not be able to leave the house, but these transporting books whisk us to Central Asia 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

They were dead-end working-class kids who had no use for the romanticism of the flower-power era, and instead peered into the abyss that awaits us all. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z

In an earlier book of stories, “The Secret Goldfish,” David Means managed a dark portrait of today’s working-class youth, aimless and bereft of the stability that “working-class” once conferred. Books of The Times: David Means Colors His Stories Dark in ?The Spot? 2010-06-29T22:00:00Z

Ms. Kerrigan was from a working-class family too, but she was loved. Tonya Harding Would Like Her Apology Now 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

This divide was cemented by eight years of Barack Obama; white working-class voters attracted by Bill Clinton’s folksy charm were repelled by a black president with a foreign-sounding name and a chilly, cerebral manner. Promises, promises 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

They also debated whether a lack of working-class programming is the fault of the storytellers or the channel executives themselves. Trump is our first reality TV president. So how could his victory change reality TV? 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

The series, which returns for its third and final season Friday, is first and foremost a brutally funny coming-of-age story, following five working-class friends at a Catholic girls’ school in the 1990s. ‘Derry Girls’: And Now Their Troubles Are Ended 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

The less confident, northern working-class landscape painter Paul Tarrant is Paul Nash mixed with Spencer. Toby's Room by Pat Barker – review 2012-08-10T21:55:02Z

A working-class dog beat the Boss: Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl,” off his album “Working Class Dog,” is a fantastic singalong number. Grammy Awards 40 years later: How the 1982 nominees stack up today 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z

But Monkhouse was no sentimentalist: he shows Mary's working-class father to be more than happy for her to live off the Timbrells' money. Mary Broome ? review 2011-03-21T18:27:12Z

One of the more successful competitors over the years, Hesperia High School, serves a working-class town in the Mojave Desert. Movie Review: ?Shakespeare High? Opens, With Kevin Spacey 2012-03-09T00:00:08Z

Creflo Dollar’s church attracts some forty thousand members, most of them poor and working-class blacks trying to pull themselves out of poverty and into the middle class. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z

“In 1992, in the suburban working-class community where I grew up, no one would have guessed there would be a gun on the premises,” reflects the director. 'I was terrified I was going to be a flash in the pan': three people who made Hollywood history 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

Seventy per cent of the population considered itself working-class and it now voiced modest aspirations with hugely radical potential. The Spirit of '45: where did it go? 2013-03-02T16:00:02Z

He shoots his friends, many of them working-class, such as the “henna girls” who adorn tourists in the Jemaa el Fna square in Marrakesh. Hassan Hajjaj Turns Moroccan Clichés Into London Cool 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Why would a novel set primarily in New York and Las Vegas exclude people of color from any roles that aren’t working-class servitude?  Donna Tartt’s multicultural fantasy: How “The Goldfinch” got away with its disgraceful racial politics 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

The major incidents — the nameless hero’s humiliating expulsion from a Southern college; his brutal, nearly fatal inauguration into the working-class life; his recruitment as a speaker for a socialist organization — are dutifully staged. Theater Review: Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man,’ at the Huntington Theater 2013-01-28T22:57:11Z

Moreover, he is important to his community of mostly poor, working-class people in the city of Barcelona where the story takes place. Javier Bardem faced down acting demons in "Biutiful" 2010-12-28T16:09:19Z

Written by Nina Raine, “Tribes” is a comic drama about that revolves around Billy, a young deaf man at odds with his intellectual and argumentative working-class family in London. When Hands Talk, Be Careful Where You Point 2014-02-07T23:10:32Z

Victoria Beckham perfectly exemplifies how working-class people are criticised for speaking, no matter how posh their accent is. Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing a working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

As a teacher, Olsen developed pioneering courses in feminist and working-class literature. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

I was raised working-class, and thoughts of servants or maids filled me with tremendous guilt. Dominatrix for a day 2012-11-04T01:00:00Z

August is wealthy, athletic and passes for straight, while Segun is flamboyant, political, working-class and frequently targeted — same-sex relationships are illegal in Nigeria. A ‘Lucky Child’ Writes His Way From Nigeria to the Global Stage 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z

As she did at the 2008 convention, Mrs. Obama told the story of her working-class parents’ struggle to provide, and Mr. Obama’s childhood as the son of a single white mother. The TV Watch: The TV Watch: From Michelle Obama, a Heartfelt Testimonial as the First Helpmate 2012-09-05T04:31:04Z

Ironically, working-class access to art came to an end when in 1946 the new Arts Council transferred money from the British Institute's highly successful Art for the People project to Covent Garden. Letters: A superior class of cultural experience 2013-04-01T20:00:02Z

The campaign’s goal to extend protections to working-class women is admirable. Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

The movie co-starred her close friend Clift as the ambitious young man who drowns his working-class girlfriend to be with the socialite Taylor. Quintessential star Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 2011-03-24T10:32:15Z

Jiggs is an Irish immigrant to North America who won a million dollar sweepstakes, yet remains connected to his working-class lifestyle, including his favorite meal of corned beef and cabbage. What is Canadian Thanksgiving (or L'Action de grâce) and what foods are commonly enjoyed by locals? 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

Let's have real and imagined stories; let's have real monarchs and entirely made-up ones, working-class royalty, showbiz royalty, let's really open this one up. Readers recommend: songs about royalty 2010-12-10T00:01:00Z

We were both from Scottish working-class families so statements like that were bold. A letter to my late husband, who was an alcoholic 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

Of course there are many working-class parents who are too busy getting through the day and putting food on the table to worry about Mandarin lessons or whatever. Home-schooling: You’re doing it too! 2013-09-14T18:00:00Z

I'd never been into a working-class household, where people sat in silence glued to the television set. Bowie and me 2013-02-23T08:00:24Z

He had to work his way up in the diplomatic service, which is what those bright, young working-class men did. Danny DeVito: I still miss my father 2012-06-15T23:05:18Z

In the working-class areas of Pisgat Ze'ev and Neve Yaacov to the northeast of Jerusalem's Old City, 1 to 2 percent of residents are now Israeli Arab or Palestinian, figures show. Leave or let live? Arabs move in to Jewish settlements 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

I’m sure I’m like a lot of people from middle- and working-class backgrounds in that I’d certainly dreamed of traveling around the world — I just never thought it would happen. A Few Questions for Our 52 Places Traveler 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z

I'm not from a bunch of money, and you felt it was nice to see a working-class family on screen so upfront. "The Big Door Prize's" Chris O'Dowd: "Being Irish has been nothing but an absolute gift" 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

“Stillwater” is animated by cascading cultural clashes and misunderstandings, most of them involving Damon’s character, a taciturn, working-class middle American whose eyes are perpetually shaded by a worn-out gimme cap. Perspective | In ‘Stillwater,’ Tom McCarthy questions America’s moral authority through the lens of a red-state hero 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

“The issues that naturally come up are for a working-class family. So if we can’t pay our health care bills or we can’t make the rent, there’s something inherently political about these things,” she said. Live episode of ‘The Conners’ takes on New Hampshire primary 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

Between the two world wars, reformers in the eugenics movement justified the involuntary sterilization of tens of thousands of working-class women as a measure to reduce the birthrate of the “socially inadequate.” Criminal justice reform in the U.S. has a long history of repressive outcomes 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

He's a working-class lad himself, he reminded readers, and libraries never did anything for him. Frank Skinner's attack on free libraries is a bad joke 2010-09-01T09:55:00Z

If you listen closely, you might hear a hint of their working-class Bronx background in Jenny’s voice; with Lucy, it’s about as subtle as a car horn in heavy traffic. Movie Review: ‘Union Square,’ by Nancy Savoca, With Mira Sorvino 2012-07-12T23:12:20Z

The show is based on the popular British TV series of the same name, with its setting transplanted from a working-class Manchester neighborhood to its nearest equivalent in Chicago. 'Shameless' keeps dysfunction all in the family 2011-01-07T22:04:00Z

Our tour began in the working-class neighborhood of Stokes Croft, the scruffy, urban crust of Bristol’s primarily placid interior. Art in Bristol, England, Moves Beyond Museum Walls 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

It was a hugely daring move, based on his belief that a working-class Tory voter was waiting out there in the future. One nation in one man: the portrait of Benjamin Disraeli 2012-10-03T14:52:44Z

The BBC loosened up over time and took increasing account of working-class and minority audiences, and of audiences who simply wanted to laugh. A Century of the BBC, a ‘Quasi-Mystical’ Part of England’s Psyche 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

Like his alter ego Billy, Hall hails from a working-class clan in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in one of Britain's oldest coal-producing regions, though his father was a house painter. 'Billy Elliot' author talks about blending politics and artistic aspiration as tour comes to Seattle 2011-03-17T01:40:20Z

In London, often middle-class black immigrants moved into already deprived white working-class communities, where they have either remained or been replaced by newer waves of residents from eastern Europe, Turkey or Somalia. Clybourne Park: The joke's not funny if only wealthy white people laugh 2010-09-18T07:30:00Z

You say to Democrats: You’re responsible because you ignored working-class white guys. Mike Daisey: A Political Monologuist’s Summer of Trump 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

The comedy about four working-class teens who take on students from the local university in a cycle race was nominated for five Oscars, including best director and best film and won one for its screenplay. Peter Yates dead 2011-01-10T11:40:29Z

Lila is gifted but a child of parents who can’t afford to pay for her education, one of the few avenues for a working-class girl to escape her limited circumstances. Smart Watch: “My Brilliant Friend” and “Escape at Dannemora” mark the start of awards (ba... 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

What if a bunch of kids in a rundown, working-class neighborhood found an alien? This Week?s DVDs: Sci-fi Scares from Spielberg and Cornish 2011-10-25T21:49:36Z

There is truly nothing traditional about “Kill It,” in which the filmmaker reflects on his grief, mortality and isolation in his working-class industrial town. ‘Kill It and Leave This Town’ Review: Grotesque, Bleak and Endless 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

Precarious because Gowanus’s mix of light industry, artist studios, hipster shuffleboard clubs and working-class housing is under threat from the usual combination of bad development and escalating real estate prices. In Gowanus, a People’s Housing Plan to Challenge the Mayor’s 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

“All of us wept as we told stories of our working-class backgrounds and stories of racism and sexism and how this experience brought up those issues,” Aleshire said. Bread Loaf Ends ‘Wait Scholar’ Program 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Perhaps only Shteyngart could evoke a dog who “died from the melancholy of being a working-class Jewish pet.” Gary Shteyngart Is Back, on the Road and Still a Master of Dislocation 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Ted didn't want there to be an 'average' working-class woman. Sylvia Syms: 'I'd like a really evil part' 2012-07-19T19:00:04Z

Reading David's letter, I do wonder if the reason for this is because these were mainly working-class people, whereas the Nazis' core support base were the lower middle class and the middle-class professions. Letters: Alone under a dictatorship 2011-01-15T00:06:19Z

Because the African-American share of the population is relatively constant, Democratic hopes for majority status without sufficient white working-class votes rest on the immigration-fueled growth of the Latino population. Dear Class of 2012, life isn’t easy 2012-06-26T20:49:00Z

Dickinson plays Jim, a working-class lad who moves to London and quickly falls in with a group of male escorts who cater to a very specific sort of patron. ‘Postcards From London’ Review: Small Town Boy Becomes Big City Escort 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Carey Mulligan plays the aforementioned wrong girl, nicely underplaying her role as a working-class American woman, quite sweet and a little lost. Cannes: Ryan Gosling's dazzling, sleek new thrill ride 2011-05-20T20:21:00Z

Their exaltation of working-class traditions over middle-class values led to the persistence in the Labour party of an increasingly sham proletarian identity, he argues. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z

Baltimore's public arts commission considered multiple locations, including the bohemian Fells Point waterfront, before deciding on the Southeast Anchor Library in working-class Highlandtown, a neighborhood well known for its many Greek restaurants. Weeklong fete planned for Zappa statue in hometown 2010-07-27T01:01:00Z

It's ridiculously ironic that a woman named "Posh Spice," was claiming that she grew up working-class. Why do some celebrities pretend to have struggling, working-class backgrounds? 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z

And can you remember the last time a broadcast network built a sitcom around fiftysomething, pear-shaped, working-class married people -- of any color? Why "All in the Family" still matters 2011-01-12T15:01:00Z

We talk about her childhood in Newton Heath, a working-class area of Manchester, where she lived with her parents and brothers, and spent much of her time lost in books. Richard and Judy: 'I wouldn't remotely want to do television again' 2011-02-07T08:00:06Z

The district, which includes both wealthy and working-class neighborhoods, surveys parents every year to learn more about the needs of those communities. How schools are failing working parents — and how some are helping 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

She grew up mostly in a working-class section of the Germantown neighborhood in Philadelphia. Buzz Over Ayana Mathis’s ‘Twelve Tribes of Hattie’ 2012-12-10T22:42:33Z

Some of these posters were translated into Yiddish and Italian in order to reach working-class immigrants. From Greenwich Village to the Nation, Leading the Push for Women’s Rights 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

I think they’ve forgotten their working-class roots and are now maybe even on the right. Love across the divide: couples on Brexit, politics and religion 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

Morris positions Bannon’s working-class support against his advocacy against the cruder aspects of his party. “American Dharma” review: Errol Morris’ Steve Bannon doc is the most disturbing movie of th... 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Largely out of the cultural conversation for the better part of a decade, Godard suddenly became scandalous again in 1985 with his movie about a working-class virgin named Mary, who gets mysteriously pregnant. 9 Great Godard Films to Stream Now 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

This is pure Sunday morning mayhem spawned by the rough, working-class smarts typical of that time’s journalists. ArtsBeat: Sunday Morning Mayhem 2013-12-27T16:22:46Z

It was suburban, on the fringe of the island of Swarthmore, in the sea of working-class Delaware County, the armpit of America, as my father called it. Lessons from My Father 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

Even as the museum’s reputation outgrew its size and modest budget, staff members remained devoted to serving their working-class neighborhood with community events, poetry readings, yoga classes and movie screenings. Underground Museum in Los Angeles Has Closed 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

His father was a professor, but Molina came from firmly working-class roots. Jason Molina obituary 2013-03-19T14:42:00Z

In conversations with Republicans about the challenges facing my working-class family, I’ve gotten used to being asked how many TVs my parents own, or what kind of cars they drive. Hillbilly sellout: The politics of J. D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” are already being used to gut the working poor 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Meyerowitz, who was raised in a working-class family in the Bronx, was working as an art director at an advertising firm when he was assigned to accompany Robert Frank on a mundane commercial assignment. Joel Meyerowitz in New Book and at Howard Greenberg Gallery 2012-11-18T03:49:04Z

These comedies from the 1980s of plucky, sassy working-class women – tidily shaped, efficient exercises in sentimental button-pushing — have never been personal favorites of mine. London Theater Journal: A Double Double Bill 2010-07-28T15:51:00Z

Profiling the band in early 1987, Spin writer Glenn O’Brien called the song “working-class minstrelsy,” and he’s not wrong. We’re all livin’ on a prayer: How a hair band anthem from the least cool ’80s rockers became a classic 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

A working-class man who never travelled for pleasure, he was consoled by the cavalcade of treasures we saw. Where now for travel? Lonely Planet closures point to an uncertain future 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

Paul Abbott’s drama might have dragged on a little too long but at its best it provided a refreshing burst of authentically working-class TV comedy-drama. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Black students are more likely to come from working-class households, where they most likely are not raised to expect to apply to Oxbridge. Should Oxbridge discriminate to boost the numbers of black students? 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z

It situates her in her working-class habitat of cul-de-sacs and dart boards, samples some of her pugnacious solo “Hope Hunt” and lets us hear her thoughts in voice-over. The Dance on Camera Festival, When Dance Is Only on Camera 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Her second Pulitzer came just last spring, for “Sweat,” a deeply researched piece set in Reading, Pa., that channels the anxiety and despair of working-class Americans caught in the wreckage of once-thriving factory towns. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Higgins’s characters were lowlifes and ­working-class cops, none of whom were the brightest guys you ever met. Elmore Leonard shoots his way into the Library of America

The group was nominated for a project in which it refurbished derelict Victorian-era houses with the help of residents in a working-class neighborhood in Liverpool. Assemble Design Collective Wins Britain’s Turner Prize 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Still, it raises questions about the relationship between the gallery and its working-class environs. Near downtown L.A., an oddly entrancing art installation, at once beautiful and troubling 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

Situated in a working-class neighborhood, it consists of four canopy tents with walls made of recycled tarpaulin. How Malaysia Got in on the Secondhand Clothing Boom 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

The characters live more in a working-class, blue-collar segment of the South Asian community. Ravi Kapoor on his comedy "Four Samosas": "I always wanted to make a lo-fi heist movie" 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

There were personal jabs about being “ashy” and class warfare was waged whenever the working-class branch of the family butted heads with their “bougie” in-laws. A Groundbreaking Cartoon Family Returns, ‘Louder and Prouder’ 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

This autobiographical novel follows a young gay boy’s coming-of-age in working-class France. New in Paperback: ‘Why Buddhism Is True,’ ‘The End of Eddy’ 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

It’s no mystery what lies at the bottom of white working-class rage: Income inequality has been rising for four decades, and median income has mostly stagnated. If Liberalism Is in Crisis, Who’s to Blame? 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Many of the reforms that Hull-House and other settlement houses initiated were geared toward improving the lives of working-class immigrants who shouldered the bulk of the burden of capitalism’s explosion. The American’s dilemma: Jane Addams, Barack Obama & the urge to help others 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

The issues that we talk about on the show are timeless and completely relevant to what it means to be working-class in America. America Ferrera on Why People Should See Themselves on TV 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

That Parks’ legacy is so completely sanitized of this collective, working-class backdrop teaches us at least two things. Rosa Parks’ activism wasn’t limited to a Montgomery bus 2013-03-15T16:57:00Z

Romero most reflected Pittsburgh in films like “The Crazies” and “Martin” with characters that epitomized the city’s working-class population, and through themes — like corporate greed and environmental trauma — that rattled the region in postindustrial America. Pittsburgh Embraces a Renegade Filmmaker 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

But the women in ‘Rap Sh!t” are more desperate, feeling anxious to make something exciting happen in their lives before they get stuck in a working-class rut. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to HBO, Hulu, Apple TV+ and More in July 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Walter Street was built as an enclave for working-class African Americans in the early 20th century. They got married in the middle of the friendliest street in town — and the neighbors all came to help 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

But what we see is Jack, the working-class hero, undergoing a series of moral tests. The Game 2010-09-26T20:29:00Z

It’s a magnificent film, closely modelled on the silent version starring Belle Bennett, and featured Anne Shirley as Stanwyck’s daughter, who is increasingly mortified by her brash, working-class mother. From femme fatale to cattle rancher: how Barbara Stanwyck bucked convention 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

No doubt her working-class and mixed-race background, her bad brothers, were exotic and romantic for him, too. This Week in Fiction: Tessa Hadley on Fiction as Anthropology 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

He felt simply lucky to be on TV considering where he started, as the child of working-class parents in Guangzhou. Four Decades on, Martin Yan Faces a New Audience and a New World 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

“Perhaps I’ve only ever been a middle-class boy trapped in a working-class life.” Fleeing Home, but Not Homophobia 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

A working-class white woman by the name of Theresa Haug recounts a story about a boy who is hit by a car and taken to "the Jewish hospital." Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. McCullin started taking photographs in the 1950s in a working-class area of North London. A War Photographer Is Celebrated as an Artist, to His Dismay 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

For one thing, they helped him make the transition from a fairly deprived working-class life to the artistically inclined middle class. Tom Wilkinson: down with the big boys 2011-04-05T20:30:00Z

Nor are they ready made for reality television, or even for a show like “Shameless,” the new Showtime series set in working-class Chicago in which everyone seems to be dramatically hyperactive. | 'Putty Hill': Drugs, Death and Downward Mobility in Baltimore 2011-02-17T23:38:30Z

The piece is a return to early form for Lindsay-Abaire, better known for his working-class drama “Good People” and the Pulitzer-winning “Rabbit Hole.” Review | Lindsay-Abaire’s ‘Ripcord’ pulls the rug out from under senior-living pranksters 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

This style-conscious young crowd — drawn by a cultural festival — has become an increasingly common sight in this sleepy, mostly working-class neighborhood that in recent decades fell into disrepair. Heads Up: Santurce Section of San Juan Aspires to Be an Arts Mecca 2011-03-04T19:55:00Z

From the conditions of this politicked body — the queer condition, the working-class condition, conditions of whiteness or non-whiteness and gender in motion — Myles questions where we began or must begin again. From an Iconoclast and an Icon, Poems of Personal and Public Transformation 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

“But I felt like I hadn’t really read this story of a queer, working-class boy’s childhood before.” How ‘Shuggie Bain’ Became This Year’s Breakout Debut 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

And rather than reject her working-class past, Chanel mined it for design inspiration, basing many of her most successful fashions on workers’ clothing. The Cinderella Myth We Can’t Quit 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Julius is a child of the aristocracy who prefers the company of servants, lackeys and the working-class members of his neighborhood in Miraflores. Read Your Way Through Lima 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z

And one of the unpalatable truths is because a huge population of white, working-class folks feel alienated from their own country and their own reference points. Billy Bragg sings about English identity in play 2010-04-26T18:56:00Z

In 2015, Assemble, an architecture and design group, triumphed with a project that refurbished derelict houses in a working-class neighborhood of Liverpool, England. Five Collectives Compete for the Turner Prize 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

"Broadway Bound" is the third installment of Simon's trilogy of plays devoted to the working-class Jerome family, and specifically, the wisecracking son Eugene. Neil Simon pays visit to 'Broadway Bound' in Los Angeles 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

It’s a filthier, morally malnourished post-frontier of land disputes, rapacious development, bureaucratic corruption, tribal animosities, endangered resources, working-class poverty, tax-free casinos, drug abuse and anti-federal sentiment. Review | A gruff Kevin Costner has a hard time corralling ‘Yellowstone’s’ wild herd of subplots 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

My experience is not unusual for academics with working-class accents. Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing a working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

We're living in a world that is rife with inequality, widespread labor issues plaguing the country and a growing gap between the uber, incredibly wealthy and the poor, working-class person. Why do some celebrities pretend to have struggling, working-class backgrounds? 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z

There are more Roberts around – working-class, kind, regular – but they too don't often make it to a 4 documentary. Rewind radio: Lives in a Landscape: Wheelchair Pusher Needed; Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation; The World Tonight – review 2013-03-16T22:50:01Z

While most Americans associate Capitol Hill with Congressional misadventures and general dysfunction, thousands of people — senators, reporters, congressional aides, artists, working-class long-timers and young families — call it home. 36 Hours in Washington, D.C. 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

My father has smoked since he was six, joined the Marines when he was 17, and has had a tough labouring life with a classically working-class diet. Getting fit in middle age: a marathon addict, a couch potato and others share their pain 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

His working-class Dublin background — his father, Sammy, was a bus conductor and his mother, Mary, worked in a cigarette factory — opens onto a sort of narrative everywhere. His Life Was Too Boring for a Memoir. So He Wrote Ireland’s. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

Perhaps inevitably, some now lament that Marseille is losing its distinctive working-class character and southern French soul. 36 Hours in Marseille 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

She was raised in a working-class family, but, as he bragged in a letter, “looks like she was to the manor born — only it took a hell of a time to get her there.” Ralph Ellison’s Letters Reveal a Complex Philosopher of Black Expression 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

But this production also rings with the primal pain of a working-class American who, once stripped of the identity of his job, discovers he belongs nowhere. Review: A Mesmerizing ‘Hairy Ape’ Brings Existentialism to Park Avenue 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

More unruly and colorful working-class reporters and editors were the norm until codes of ethics, a greater sense of professionalism and journalism schools arose or flourished. Chicago News Cooperative: Hildy Johnson Would Have Happily Hacked 2011-07-24T07:30:30Z

Oldman’s brutally honest autobiographical film about his working-class London upbringing, “Nil By Mouth,” shot scenes in the very bar his hard-drinking father used to frequent. Gary Oldman on finding the frequency of ‘Mank’ 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

And it’s refreshing to hear working-class men discuss their difficult lives, partly because of their invisible presence in our own. Arts & Leisure Preview: Grab a Brew While They Face Death 2011-03-24T16:56:52Z

One survey found that white working-class voters were three and a half times more likely to support Trump if they felt “like a stranger in their own land.” Life in an America Where Some Are Only ‘Conditional Citizens’ 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

It was one of the first shows to include a same-sex kiss; it was also unusual in featuring working-class, overweight characters, without making those traits central to the joke. Your next box set: Roseanne 2010-12-03T08:00:00Z

The ecstatically modulated lyricism of its pas de deux seems to harness all the passion that took him from working-class teenager to the top of ballet. MacMillan triple bill | Dance review 2010-03-24T22:05:00Z

Set in the southwestern city Chengdu, the movie follows the relationship between three working-class youngsters and a grieving mother who lost her son to a car crash. Chinese director lands a hit after censorship woes 2011-04-27T11:49:11Z

Although it initially looks and moves like a PBS period drama, “Alias Grace” dares to suggest that Grace is the product of a culture that uses and disregards women — especially poor, ­working-class women. Perspective | Two provocative dramas show how a feminist story need not always be a triumphant one 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

The show was praised for being a realistic portrayal of a working-class family. Comedy series 'Roseanne' could be latest U.S. television comeback 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

Britpop, the other guitar revolt of early 1990s Britain — which polarized into the working-class anthems of Oasis and Blur’s clever experimentalism — became wildly popular, and nearly toppled by its own hype. Shoegaze, the Sound of Protest Shrouded in Guitar Fuzz, Returns Again 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

Then again, it follows that young working-class women of that era would have had little access to the world outside Uruguay, so that even a few months in Buenos Aires seems like an epic parting. A Tale of Five Women 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

In fact, the story Powell tells fits almost exactly the classic template of working-class autobiography, a genre stretching back at least 200 years. Maid in England 2011-08-19T21:55:04Z

That image reinforces the movie’s acrid portrait of a scuffling working-class milieu where the lines between legitimate employment and petty crime blur. Review: ‘Two Step’ Scuffles Around With Petty Criminals 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Jackson grew up working-class, in a family mostly uninterested in the arts; in school, he felt like a misfit, bad at sports, socially unredeemed by his talent for violin and piano. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

One working-class member, feeling abandoned by peers with expensive legal representation, turns state’s evidence, while the wealthiest person in their group reveals that she’s planning to write a tell-all. ‘Read Receipts’ On: Two Dystopian Novels Predict the Surveillance State 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

"If you're a working-class kid and you end up working in British theatre, especially with an Irish background, you feel like you're not welcome," he says. Seven Psychopaths: 'You can't kill dogs in Hollywood' 2012-12-01T00:01:00Z

On radio, this working-class Dublin matriarch was an instant hit – and yet O'Carroll considered her a sideline to his standup career. Mrs Brown's Boys: how the 'worst comedy ever made' became a smash hit 2013-01-29T16:57:30Z

Raised in Enid, Okla., in a working-class musical family, Dalton’s father experienced discrimination due to his Cherokee lineage, which presented in Dalton’s straight black hair and carved features. The many mysteries of folk singer Karen Dalton, revealed 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

There wasn’t much dire poverty in West Berkeley by big-city standards, and a lot of it was just standard working-class America. Kamala Harris, busing in Berkeley and me: The tangled tale of a semi-failed social experiment 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

There's too little nuance here, and giving him a pregnant working-class neighbour with a penchanct for White Lightning doesn't help on that front. American Dream 2010-11-20T06:45:00Z

Both believe themselves to be close to the female servants who work in the houses and to the working-class boys they grew up with, and who now do odd jobs. Neighbouring Sounds – review 2013-03-24T00:06:39Z

It's an old story: working-class kid uses music as a passport to his or her dreams. Jake Bugg: 'I'd never do a talent show. It doesn't seem genuine' 2012-05-26T23:05:34Z

In 2006 he had an HBO sitcom, “Lucky Louie,” in which he played a dispirited working-class father of two who is bossed around by a spitfire wife, a nurse who is the family’s prime breadwinner. | 'Louie': Louis C.K.?s New Comedy on FX 2010-06-28T22:37:00Z

Just before sundown, on the seventh day of this year — a droning, drizzly afternoon on Portland’s working-class Eastside — I boarded a city train to the airport without paying the required fare. Down and out in Portland: Lean seasons had always been part of my writing life, but this time I was dead broke 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Equipped with an Aberdeen accent and a closely cropped haircut, Law's conflicted working-class antihero emerges as his most satisfyingly substantial lead performance in years. 'Black Sea's' Jude Law takes a deep dive into gritty territory 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Bowling was once a great American sport, as much a part of my working-class Ohio childhood as the Cincinnati Reds or an Oldsmobile car lot. Back-to-Basics Bowling (No Fancy-Pants Stuff) 2011-04-28T20:14:48Z

Mr. Ligon himself grew up in a working-class family in the Bronx, his father a line foreman for General Motors and his mother a nurse’s aide. The Inside Story on Outsiderness 2011-02-25T21:36:23Z

I don't think it's an accident that the examples I've found of "dying neighborly" all come from marginalized perspectives: African Americans in Harlem; rural working-class communities in the upper Midwest; female writers. With threats of nuclear war and climate disaster growing, America’s "bunker fantasy" is inadequate 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

The news media villainized many of the women — particularly working-class black and immigrant women — in racist and sexist prints featured in the exhibition. These ‘Rebel Women’ Sought Equality in 19th-Century New York 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

I first became aware of Wes when I read his debut novel Shark a colourful, fabulously written study of 'working-class' life and alienation. Tony Harrison to headline Leeds literature festival the Big Bookend 2013-04-12T07:00:05Z

It makes me furious to think people believe you can't articulate yourself in an artistic way and remain working-class. 'Billy Elliot' author talks about blending politics and artistic aspiration as tour comes to Seattle 2011-03-17T01:40:20Z

But it captures a working-class milieu with the sort of authenticity and empathy that you rarely find in a Broadway musical. Hands on a Hardbody: Broadway’s New Pickup 2013-03-27T11:00:17Z

Born to a working-class family, Spence learned photography on the job in commercial studios, then took a commercial route on her own, specializing in portraiture. Art In Review: Jo Spence: ‘Work (Part III) the History Lesson’ 2013-12-13T00:33:14Z

Perhaps because the only notable British sitcom about a non-white family was The Crouches in 2003, which followed the lives of a black working-class south London family as imagined by a white middle-class Glaswegian screenwriter. Pass notes No 2,834: The sitcom 2010-08-22T19:00:00Z

He then returned to New York City, always his primary turf, to chronicle life in East Harlem and a working-class community, largely Puerto Rican, disparaged and isolated by the city government. At the Queens Museum, Home and the World 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Waterhouse grew up in Southern California, the son of working-class parents who made it clear that “music was not an option” as a career, Waterhouse says. Nick Waterhouse finds the right musical language 2012-10-04T16:30:00Z

Specifically, it’s about working-class women at the frayed edges of a service economy, with no net to catch them if they lose their grip on the pole. Review: ‘P-Valley’ Has All the Right Moves 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Republicans have since catered as ever to the rich but they have also curried favor with working-class whites, while Democrats seem more focused on others: racial minorities, gays, immigrants. The Day the White Working Class Turned Republican 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

This is the film's elegant way of depicting the kind of discrimination that Jann experiences as a biracial, working-class, non-professional driver in an exclusive sport. Get revved up for "Gran Turismo," the summer's suspenseful thrill ride based on a true story 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z

Thank heavens for The Hotel: lovely, touching, fly-on-the-wall footage of modern working-class Brits on a seaside holiday in a tatty hotel, intercut with the bickering and bonhomie of the staff. The Hotel: Grace Dent's TV OD 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z

It was praised for its realistic portrayal of working-class life. Roseanne Barr blames sleep aid Ambien for racist tweet 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

The action is set in a working-class English household in 1965, before the advent of the metrosexual male, for whom cooking and housekeeping hold no terrors. An exemplary 'Homecoming' at Pacific Resident Theatre 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

In the last few decades, things have not been going well for working-class people of any colour. Why are the poor blamed and shamed for their deaths? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

And working-class political parties were crucial in forcing 20th-century European governments to create welfare states, while the social compromises of postwar Europe owed much to elite fears that workers would otherwise vote Communist. The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine – review 2013-04-11T09:00:01Z

Her parents were a young and upwardly mobile working-class couple who, when she was nine, took the advice of a neighbour who had emigrated to South Africa and followed him. A life in writing: Nicola Barker 2010-04-30T23:13:00Z

The tango originated in the early 19th century in the working-class port areas of Buenos Aires. Dancers aim to qualify for Argentina's World Tango Championship 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

The staff here is French, and so is the menu, which is akin to those found in neighborhood restaurants frequented by working-class Parisians. Paris in the Springtime, in New York 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

"The Last Ship," which debuted earlier this year in Chicago, stars actor Michael Esper as Gideon Fletcher, a young man who returns to his working-class town in northeast England. Sting musical 'The Last Ship' opens on Broadway to mixed reviews 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

This triumphant novel sounds the depths of women’s unseen strength in a register that reconciles enlightened feminism with working-class rage. Cold Cases: Three Scandinavian Novels Explore Chilling Emotional Territory 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

But at her core, she continues to celebrate the colorful drama of working-class lives, punching them up with the freshest country rock arrangements this side of Eric Church. Review: Miranda Lambert shines on ‘Platinum’ 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

Holcomb, the book’s other editor, pointed out that “Romance in Marseille” depicts great freedom in working-class queer life. A Book So Far Ahead of Its Time, It Took 87 Years to Find a Publisher 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

In return, Perry urged viewers from snootier tribes to think twice before looking down their noses at the bling and showiness of working-class culture. Rewind TV: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry; The Secret History of Our Streets; The Apprentice 2012-06-09T23:05:47Z

Or Thatcher’s England where a working-class girl from Accrington could go to Oxford and receive not just a free education but a generous maintenance as well? Columns That Scrutinized, and Skewered, the Literary World 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Bonnie Edwards, who writes stories about working-class girls, wasn’t published until 15 years after her first submission in the early 90’s. “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

A closer examination of working-class politics is long overdue by the establishment and we need more individuals earnestly engaging with other smart people about these neglected topics and regions. Liberal shaming of Appalachia: Inside the media elite’s obsession with the “hillbilly problem” 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Just south of the hip Palermo Soho neighborhood, a staunchly working-class Buenos Aires barrio is undergoing a quiet metamorphosis. In a Buenos Aires Barrio, a Quiet Metamorphosis 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

Wet Wet Wet's Marti Pellow narrates, but it is the character of the flawed, working-class mother who is most memorable in a story which is all the more effective because it eschews sentimentality. This week's new theatre 2013-01-12T06:00:19Z

But the rest of the time, he sees his working-class life as a cautionary tale for his aimless 22-year-old son, Feng. What Makes a Good Chinese Father? In a New Novel, It’s Complicated. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

Calhoun is a devoted philanthropist, daughter of a working-class family, and a community-college student before graduating from Seattle University, where she majored in English literature. The art of divorce: She gets the Monet, he gets the Renoir 2012-07-29T04:26:24Z

Mr. Jones goes to visit a depressed working-class neighborhood and returns with a pocketful of soppy clichés. Books of The Times: Get Your Bling and Adidas Tracksuit, Wayne, a British Class War Is Raging 2011-07-12T20:59:50Z

The gang shared a working-class, Italian-Catholic background, but look like they have walked straight off the set of West Side Story. Joker in the pack 2010-06-21T13:52:00Z

She was one of Britain's first authentically working-class novelists, earning international fame with her 1925 book This Slavery which was reviewed glowingly everywhere – the then Manchester Guardian called it "remarkable and distinctly original". Helen of Four Gates to get screening after 80-year hiatus 2010-05-31T14:38:00Z

Even though I’m not working-class, the story described a world and an attitude to women I knew well. The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

Obesity follows much the same pattern, being significantly higher in working-class metros and lower in creative-class ones. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z

When Burrell was 8 years old, the working-class boy from a northern England mining village was taken to watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. Books to get you ready for Harry and Meghan’s royal wedding 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

Ruling elites have used the discourse of incivility to criticize dissent as it has emerged across ideological and racial lines and includes unruly conservative working-class whites as well as left-oriented black youth groups. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 1 of 2 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

A lover of pubs and restaurants, he was a man without side, utterly un-snobbish, and ever aware of his working-class beginnings. John Hoyland obituary 2011-08-01T19:14:31Z

It’s a working river in a working-class neighborhood. For a Seattle Enclave, Isolation May Be Its Salvation 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

“What we’re seeing across the country is that working-class people of color are being pushed out of cities because of gentrification and the high cost of rent.” How a middle school principal used the Ocasio-Cortez playbook against a 16-term incumbent 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

He added that Connery, a working-class Scot, was miscast but nonetheless perfect, “because it turned the thing on its head and he made it funny.” Richard Johnson, British actor of stage and screen, dies at 87 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

At one point, Brzenk attempts to explain away his sport's working-class roots. Straight to DVD: "Pulling John," arm wrestling's holy grail 2010-05-15T00:20:00Z

I think it's a consequence of politics of the last 40 years where the trade unions and the left, which have been defending the interests of working-class people, have failed. "They are not victims": Director Ken Loach on his working-class heroes in "Sorry We Missed You" 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Two smarmy instructors lead the students, who include a gay man, a haughty female elitist, an agitated male novice and a high-strung working-class woman. Theater Review: ‘Swing & Beowulf,’ at the Irish Arts Center 2014-05-05T21:12:47Z

He takes us through his childhood years in the working-class London suburb of Hounslow — as a theater school student, stage actor and itinerant drummer. Phil Collins Wants You to Know He Isn’t Dead Yet 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Just this week, Southern Education Desk explained that Alabama has historically kept education funding low by using race – once again – as a wedge to keep white working-class people from supporting education funding. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

Unfortunately, the section revolving around this working-class youth, who lives with his mother and maternal grandfather, “Pop,” in a nondescript small town, proves uninspired and dreary. Review | Three tragic characters are mysteriously linked in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

The tapestries chart a boy's movement from working-class roots to a country pile and, finally, ignominy and death as a damaged celebrity. Grayson Perry gives The Vanity of Small Differences to the nation 2012-11-30T19:19:20Z

Lowry, a popular chronicler of working-class urban life. AP Exclusive: Art owned by TS Eliot's wife on sale 2013-05-31T01:02:08Z

Born in 1927, Gardner Smith grew up in South Philadelphia, a black working-class neighborhood in one of the North’s most racist cities. “How Does It Feel To Be a White Man?”: William Gardner Smith’s Exile in Paris 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

Yet for all his protestations, the Clinton team saw Brown as a definite possibility, who might help win over white working-class voters, especially men. Sherrod Brown thinks he could have helped Democrats win in 2016. But what about 2020? 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

At the same time, they don't neglect the more modern look of the Israeli working-class city, Ramle, where Maymon grew up. 'A Matter of Size': A likable Israeli-sumo romantic comedy 2010-10-14T20:37:00Z

Nowhere does Bragg acknowledge that much of what his white, working-class kin ate originated with Africans and Native Americans whose lives were even harder than their own. Eats of Eden 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

Rustin’s point was that while the movement had dismantled de juresegregation, most African-Americans continued to face economic problems and, consequently, that those fundamentally working-class concerns needed to be the next target. Rosa Parks’ activism wasn’t limited to a Montgomery bus 2013-03-15T16:57:00Z

Nottage, an African American playwright, never loses sight of the humanity of her white working-class characters even when the strain of their economic problems draws to the surface their latent racism. Who are these Trump voters? For a thoughtful portrait, turn to playwright Lynn Nottage's 'Sweat' 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Monique, like most of the characters in Louis’s universe, is trapped by her working-class background. On German Stages, Women Take Control 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Of course, there’s more than a little irony in the fact that a club scene born of working-class disaffection and built in opposition to corporate disco is now getting a slick commercial repackaging. Next Stop: A New Act for Manchester 2011-04-29T19:37:03Z

But it also includes precise reconstructions of working-class life off the job, from a typical tenement house in the early 1900s to street life in the 1950s. Social democracy and the dignity of work: The U.S. must learn from Scandinavian “utopias” for Bernie’s revolution to move forward 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

"But I do think there's some shared responsibility, and it's not being shared fairly for hard-working, middle-class and working-class people." Why does everybody suddenly hate billionaires? Because they’ve made it easy. 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

In 1941, he started the Book Find Club, which sold inexpensive books to a working-class clientele. George Braziller, independent publisher who gave early boosts to literary greats, dies at 101 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

A new romantic comedy, "Mike & Molly," highlights a working-class couple who meet through Overeaters Anonymous. CBS axes 7 shows to make room for fall newcomers 2010-05-19T14:46:00Z

What I wanted to do was have these working-class characters where we’re not looking at them and saying, ‘Isn’t it a shame? Wasn’t it awful? Wasn’t their life so dreadful?’ Steven Knight Isn’t Ready for ‘Peaky Blinders’ to End 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

Before that, public drinking was associated with the boisterous working-class male world of the saloon. Lisa McGirr Discusses ‘The War on Alcohol’ and the Legacy of Prohibition 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Wasn’t a working-class background once a key element of the Hollywood success narrative — getting yanked out, discovered and made over by the savior figure of agent or studio executive? Brian Cox Takes Stock of His Eventful Life on Stage and Screen 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

The source of his comedy, Mr. Garcia said, is an underlying affection for the working-class characters he has used to populate his shows like “Yes, Dear” and “My Name Is Earl.” When Hope Is a Thing With Diapers 2010-09-17T18:28:00Z

She grew up working-class, has a more bootstrapping American story than her husband or his adult children, and is seen as less partisan. Melania Trump will give her biggest speech in four years. Can she convince skeptical women to vote for her husband? 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

“David Bowie had to force the working-class guys in his band the Spiders from Mars to wear those glam clothes,” Mr. Aston said. The Gay Architects of Classic Rock 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

But his policies have hurt poor- and working-class Americans left behind by fraying social safety nets, ailing cities and failing schools; they are ever more likely to land in the state’s exploding prison system. The Story of California Told Through One Family 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday, Comedy Central is premiering “South Side,” their amiable new sitcom set in the working-class Chicago neighborhood of Englewood. ‘South Side’ and ‘Sherman’s Showcase’: Two Flavors of Nostalgia 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

The novel first introduces John Addington, a wealthy writer and a closet sexual invert himself who begins to indulge his long-held desires with a much younger, working-class man named Frank Feaver. The Gay Rights Movement Before the Gay Rights Movement 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z

Hopeful Republican party nominee, Gov. Ron DeSantis is campaigning using conservative country music's rallying cry "Rich Men North of Richmond" by Oliver Anthony as a way to appeal to his working-class base. Ron DeSantis references the conservative rallying song "Rich Men North of Richmond" 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z

The work explores the relationship between working-class residents of New York City and the experimental arts world and takes a close look at what happens when seemingly disparate cultures are placed side by side. 39 Dance Performances to See This Fall 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

The novel shows an iron-willed divorcee building up a successful restaurant business from nothing, to appease an ungrateful daughter who hates working-class Glendale and has ambitions to conquer old-money Pasadena just up the hill. Bong Joon-Ho's tormented Mother has a lot in common with the film noir classic Mildred Pierce 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z

Her second memoir is a deeply moving account of her Hmong father, a working-class machinist in English-speaking America but a world-class song poet in the Hmong language. Viet Thanh Nguyen's favorite books of 2017: "The Song Poet" and "The Sellout" 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

Oak Park and River Forest is a public school built on the border of a working-class West side neighborhood in Chicago and Oak Park, a wealthier community that prides itself on its relative progressivism. Smart Watch: “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” Ava DuVernay’s “August 28″ and more top TV thi... 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

Sean Edwards, another recipient, is a Welsh artist who received media attention in Britain last year for an exhibition at the Venice Biennale that focused on his working-class upbringing. Turner Prize Was Canceled, but Organizers Still Gave Out the Cash 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

It’s a story of sacrifice and heroism, a story of redemption and renewal and cross-racial working-class solidarity. Which is stupider: “The Purge: Election Year” or the total insanity of the real world? 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z

Well, there must be some, but when I was growing up in a poor northern working-class town, my mental resource was the public library. Jeanette Winterson Owns the Entire Oxford English Dictionary 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Based on the 2015 young-adult novel by Julie Murphy that shares its title, the movie takes place in a generic fantasy of a small town where working-class life looks comfortably middle class. Review: ‘Dumplin’’ Shares an Ordinary Girl’s Truth 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

None was disappointed by the quality of the work, but each – notably Tom Maschler – proclaimed that Sillitoe's representations of working-class existence were based upon a bizarre dystopian hypothesis. Alan Sillitoe obituary 2010-04-25T14:15:00Z

Tales of their Ohio childhood plant the Aileses firmly in the working-class conservatism to which Fox News would later speak, as Mr. Sherman pieces together the basic ingredients of Mr. Ailes’s formula for success. Books of The Times: ‘The Loudest Voice in the Room’ Is a Look at Roger Ailes 2014-01-19T22:43:42Z

“The city must also be lived like this, in a way that might seem working-class,” Bozec said. When in Rome don’t sit, dip, eat, drink in fountains 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Fishermen’s Terminal was — and still is — home to the North Pacific Fishing Fleet, but Seattle’s tech boom sparked Ballard’s redevelopment from working-class enclave to trendsetting destination neighborhood. In Seattle, classic Scandinavian cuisine makes a comeback 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

None of her clients fit the working-class descriptor. Remember, "Indian Matchmaking" is as much of a entertainment fable as all of romance reality 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

One professor, apparently unaware that public universities are a lifeline for smart, working-class kids, suggests that the law school “shouldn’t accept applicants from non-prestigious state schools.” New Memoirs Show How the Other Half Lives 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Best of all, “Go for It!” speaks to working-class young women without ignoring issues like race, class tensions and domestic violence. | 'Go for It!': Hip-Hop for Life 2011-05-13T22:43:02Z

His working-class family has no health insurance, so it falls on Johnny to find a way to pay his dad's mounting hospital bill. 'Club Life' is brought down by clichés 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

The day before I’d been to visit a women’s prison, a place where I assume mainly working-class Scottish people end up. Rachel Kushner meets Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I'm so glad I'm a novelist and not a politician’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

"She came from working-class Detroit, no education so to speak, had a freakily large voice, won a bunch of competitions, ran off at 18, and by 23 she was an international opera singer." Rebecca Hall: class act 2010-06-11T23:02:00Z

I was trying to find my own way in this working-class house full of men and machismo. Colman Domingo brings Soul to UK 2013-09-09T01:05:52Z

In Colvin she is made to deliver her labored annunciations in service of playing a working-class girl motivated to take down venal big-city bosses because they essentially ruined her father’s life. Television Review: Stirring Chicago?s Corruption Stockpot 2011-02-06T20:30:11Z

Little about her appearance reflected the working-class voters who helped Mr. Trump win the election. From the Met Ball to the Washington Mall 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

The objection will be that Stewart speaks to a bubble of like-minded liberals, and that the older working-class voters who like Trump will be less responsive to incisive progressive witticisms. Help us, Jon Stewart: You’re our only hope to defeat Donald Trump 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

“I am someone who has as much political power as any other working-class person. ... Carlson is famous, and a few weeks before, he laughed at the bombs that were sent to his political opponents.” Why do these activists publish people’s addresses but fear the same treatment? 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

She was a working-class London grammar school child and an avid reader. When parents split up – your stories 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

It was a period of full employment, rising wages, affordable consumer goods and artistic ferment, as new working-class voices made themselves heard in fiction, drama and film. David Kynaston’s ‘Modernity Britain: 1957-1962’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

The word was that their collection and show were inspired, in part, by working-class London street-gang culture. New York Fashion Week: Male Models at the Line of Beauty ? NY Fashion Week 2011-09-16T23:20:18Z

Instead, he’s your average white guy working-class cop in a world that doesn’t care much about average white guy working-class cops. We don't need a Die Hard 'origin' story 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

Being one of five girls from the city’s working-class suburbs isn’t just a biographical fact about Jill Biden, it’s become a political personality trait. It’s always sunny for Philadelphia sports fan Jill Biden these days 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

But this is still a remarkable play that starts out by exposing the grubby chicanery of professional football and ends by revealing the terrifying power of English working-class motherhood. The Game 2010-09-26T20:29:00Z

The boys travel in a pack, their ethnicity setting them apart from the white working-class children around them, and the disorder of their home life encouraging them to burrow further into their protective intimacy. Books of The Times: ?We the Animals,? by Justin Torres - Review 2011-09-01T22:00:18Z

“Outer Banks” revolves largely around the class divide between the working-class pogues and the wealthy kooks. Chase Stokes Turned Down ‘Outer Banks.’ He’s Glad He Reconsidered. 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z

The soap, set in a fictional working-class district in northwestern England, is among the most popular and longest-running programs on British television. 'Coronation Street' actor charged over rape claims 2013-05-01T20:02:09Z

Most of the people I met there were from working-class backgrounds like mine. Can I Confront My Dad About His Possibly Secret Relationship? 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

To illustrate the emotional and psychological effects of voter suppression, she draws a vivid, affectionate and insightful portrait of her grandparents, working-class Mississippians. Stacey Abrams Has a Message for You: Get Involved 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

A little later, the movie offers a glib, thoughtless caricature of a working-class single mother of six. ‘I Hate Kids’ Review: A Father-Son Comedy With Few Charms 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Some women couldn’t commit to a working-class life. Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Live in This Perfect Place? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

He benefited from his working-class background, believed in communism, fulfilled his propagandist duties and added his name to public letters condemning political prisoners. Feet of fire 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

This catapults them from their working-class jobs in Brooklyn into the backstabbing world of Madison Avenue, where they find themselves torn between success and friendship. ArtsBeat: 'Honeymooners' Musical To Open in San Diego 2012-12-06T18:59:08Z

“Nobody’s Fool” demonstrated the full range of Russo’s humor and his ear for the baseline tragedy that runs through these working-class lives. ‘Everybody’s Fool’ by Richard Russo: A wry, bittersweet sequel to ‘Nobody’s Fool’ 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

It reflects the experience of working-class immigrants, particularly women invisible to society — one of 250 acquisitions of Latin American and Latino artists, many of whom are rarely shown in this country. Inspiration From South of the Border Moves Center Stage in Houston 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

It is safe to suggest that many working-class brothers in particular believe Jesus was Black, and therefore, so are historical Jews. "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

Scott says he learned a lot from his father, a working-class Glaswegian. Dougray Scott 2010-06-03T11:45:00Z

He was the archetypal 70s boss: working-class made good, a bottle of cheap scotch in his filing cabinet and a chip on his shoulder the size of a Ford Cortina. How TV portrays office culture 2012-10-09T19:00:04Z

Ms. Bagnold’s story was about Velvet Brown, a working-class English girl who won an unwanted piebald in a village lottery and thrillingly rode it in a major steeplechase. Review: In ‘The Mare,’ Mary Gaitskill Writes About a Girl Caught in a Domestic Swirl 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

With a distinguished cast of British actors including Laurence Olivier, Vanessa Redgrave, Jon Gielgud and Maggie Smith, the film comprised a series of wartime vignettes seen through the eyes of a working-class family. Richard Attenborough dies: 6 of the actor-director's memorable movies 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

"Manchester by the Sea," about a working-class family dealing with multiple tragedies, leads SAG nominees on Sunday with four nods, including best actor for Casey Affleck. 'La La Land' pushed aside as 'Manchester,' 'Moonlight' vie for top SAG award 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

Rodriguez gives us something we rarely see in movies set in Los Angeles: the richness and drama of its working-class life. Read Your Way Around Los Angeles 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

Those from a working-class or poor urban background will be denounced as feral, spoiled, bereft of morals. After the riots, my faith-based youth work gives me hope in this generation 2011-08-12T17:59:01Z

“I’ve always felt,” she said in her early career, “that working-class women are the ones who’ve been left out and the ones who the movement really is about.” Poor, capable and funny: the return of Roseanne, the sitcom that broke all the rules 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

The painting depicts working-class men lounging on the riverbank and bathing in the Seine, on an ethereally – and yet emptily – bright day. George Seurat's Bathers at Asni?res: look again 2010-04-15T10:37:00Z

Part of his argument is that members of Britain’s news media and political worlds are increasingly the product of wealth and privilege, planets removed from the concerns of working-class people. Books of The Times: Get Your Bling and Adidas Tracksuit, Wayne, a British Class War Is Raging 2011-07-12T20:59:50Z

He is strong, sullen and stubborn, a zealous laborer whose working-class upbringing left him with a sturdy moral code and a chip on his shoulder. ‘Luzzu’ Review: Capturing Culture on the Coasts of Malta 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Ingraham, 54, who said she doesn’t spend a lot of time worrying about whom she offends, chooses to see herself as a happy conservative warrior, her mother’s daughter and a woman with working-class roots. Laura Ingraham was ‘Trump before Trump.’ But is she made for TV? 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

At the same time, she's very strong -- a working-class Italian woman who survived the war. Paglia on Taylor: "A luscious, opulent, ripe fruit!" 2011-03-24T02:58:00Z

Here, the prince — not his working-class crush — must be made over. ‘The Royal Treatment’ Review: Heavy is the Head (and Shoulders) 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

It was still an Italian, working-class neighborhood where I grew up. Greenwich Village, Storied Home of Bohemia and Gay History 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

Although tonally distinct, both novels describe single working-class motherhood and small urban apartments in unflinching detail. A Japanese Literary Star Joins Her Peers on Western Bookshelves 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

“Always Be My Maybe,” by contrast, seemed drawn from the lives of people I knew: working-class Asian immigrants and their children. What “Always Be My Maybe” Gets About Making an Asian-American Rom-Com 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

Cocker was born in Sheffield, England, into a working-class family. British soul singer Joe Cocker dies at 70 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

In his previous experience as a sportswriter, he said, “MMA fans are usually more working-class, more Republican and definitely more guys.” Date Lab: Her love of mixed martial arts surprised him 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

I grew up black and working-class in West Philly and I was proud of the place. Colman Domingo brings Soul to UK 2013-09-09T01:05:52Z

In working-class Trumbull County, where Warren is, there were 82 overdoses, 10 of them fatal, in two weeks this year. On the Front Lines of Ohio’s Heroin Crisis: Playwrights 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

That is the David Willetts manoeuvre: unemployment largely affecting working-class men is somehow the fault of middle-class women. The Second Sexism is just victim-envy 2012-05-16T19:00:05Z

His early career coincided with journalism’s transition away from a trade for poker-playing, working-class tough guys to a more genteel profession recruiting from the Ivy League. Carl Bernstein’s Eulogy for the Newspaper Business 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

In this case, though, the salt-of-the-earth Tracy character is a woman, Jean Whittaker, a longtime stalwart of the local party in a working-class mining town. On London Stages, Britain Considers Its Divided Soul 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

Both men, who were about the same age, had grown up as working-class secular Jews in New York. Joe Turkel, the Spectral Bartender in ‘The Shining,’ Dies at 94 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

But the lad from Levenshulme never forgot what he saw and learned as a working-class child brought up in an industrial Britain. Norman Foster at 75: Norman's conquests 2010-06-29T20:31:00Z

A working-class comedian who supports the Conservative Party, he said he was “a strange proposition” at the festival. Brexit Is Happening. You May as Well Laugh About It. 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

The dance form originated in the working-class neighborhoods of Argentina in the late 19th century. Pairing Up to Tango, in Every Combination 2010-10-07T21:32:00Z

It is now the host to the first major London revival of the landmark working-class drama “Road,” Jim Cartwright’s mosaic portrait of being unemployed and unmoored in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain in the mid-1980s. How Rupert Murdoch Became the King of England 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

Warhol, the Byzantine Catholic from working-class Pittsburgh, handed out funny nicknames as well. ‘As It Turns Out,’ a Sister’s Remembrance of Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

In his working-class family, college was not something taken for granted. Books of The Times: Mark Edmundson’s Essays Ask, ‘Why Teach?’ 2013-08-20T20:56:24Z

Kuhn, who has written before about white working-class Americans, builds his book on long-ago police records and witness statements to recreate in painful detail a May day of rage, menace and blood. The Day the White Working Class Turned Republican 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

Long known as the King Eddy, it opened in the early 1900s as a working-class hotel for travelers arriving in what was then a booming prairie town. At the Calgary Stampede, music takes a qualified ride 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

The family settled in Humboldt Park, a working-class neighborhood on the city’s northwest side. When workers die: “And nobody called 911″ 2013-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s a working-class district spared by the 1755 earthquake that wiped out whole chunks of the city, turning much of Lisbon’s history to rubble. How I Fell for Lisbon 2012-05-25T20:23:37Z

“Many of his heroes are working-class. They’re absolutely from the heartland of America.” Meet the writers who still sell millions of books. Actually, hundreds of millions. 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

If not as well known to tourists as districts like Campo de’ Fiori and Piazza Navona, it is arguably more Roman: a working-class neighborhood in the heart of the historic center, gentrifying around the edges. Next Stop: In Rome, Monti Is a Quiet Treasure 2011-07-01T17:00:00Z

There are deep sacrifices that some working-class Jamaicans have made to try and bring a new type of tourism to the surface. Encountering Another Jamaica 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

In the process, though Walther gets the girl, Sachs himself gets something else: he becomes working-class hero for the city's people. What's Wagner's secret? Love, actually 2013-04-25T16:00:01Z

At one juncture, he took to wearing a boilersuit on stage in an expression of working-class solidarity: "We're people like you – we don't dress up like Christmas trees." Pete Townshend: 'I can get a bit self-righteous now' 2012-10-09T16:58:10Z

Cleverly playing with our sympathies, Gaynord, in his feature debut, stirs upper-class twittery and working-class pragmatism into scenes prickling with ambiguity. ‘All My Friends Hate Me’ Review: Party Animals 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Urban working-class men called up for service in the Boer war turned out to be pale, spindly and hooked on cheap pleasures. The Art of Camping by Matthew de Abaitua - review 2011-07-06T09:00:01Z

They would have found that extraordinary, that working-class people, all sorts of people, don’t manifest their rights. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

In that sense, “The Conners” are proving that caustic partisanship never needed to be a part of the picture for the series to effectively depict the struggles of today’s working-class family. Without Roseanne, who are “The Conners” now? 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Smoking could account for only one fifth to one third of the excess working-class deaths. Why are the poor blamed and shamed for their deaths? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

Longer and more costly training made medicine more exclusive and less accessible to minorities, women, immigrants, and working-class Americans. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z

He was drawn to the working-class values and devotion to family that is part of lowrider culture — plus he liked the style, with its dickeys and baggy shirts. Lowriding Culture Goes Global 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Born into a working-class family in New York State, Avery grew up in Hartford and never really had an easy life. A Singular American Painter and His Perennially Disregarded Wife 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

Researchers have also documented how the negative mental health impact of the pandemic and the country's economic collapse is even more acute among poor and working-class people as well as non-whites. "We in America have actual fascists marching in the streets": Ed Brubaker on releasing art right now 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

He adds, “Worthy as they may be, they’ve given ballast to white working-class tribalism.” Letters to the Editor 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

The high-octane show at The St. James Theatre is based on Green Day music and follows three working-class characters as they wrestle with modern life. Davey Havok, Justin Guarini join 'American Idiot' 2011-02-10T02:29:17Z

Sabaa Tahir received the young people’s literature award for “All My Rage,” which follows a working-class Pakistani American family from Lahore to Juniper, Calif., where they run a motel. Imani Perry Wins National Book Award for ‘South to America’ 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

Myles, who grew up in a working-class Roman Catholic household near Boston, found the scene they were searching for in the old East Village church that houses the Poetry Project. Eileen Myles Watches Over an Ever-Changing New York 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

A working-class populist of the avant-garde who believes that when people actually hear this music they appreciate and understand it. The Irreducible William Parker 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

Abel, sturdier and steadier, is a working-class American who still identifies as Mexican, despite being born in California. Review: In ‘Fade,’ Outsiders Find Each Other Thanks to a TV Crime Show 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

But as so often happens when the grown-ups aren’t looking, both art forms quickly got above their raisings and became home to some powerful working-class truths that still resonate today. A Return to Slumberland and a Psychedelic Rediscovery 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

“The Outsider” appeared in May 1956, the same month that “Look Back in Anger,” Mr. Osborne’s acclaimed drama of working-class disaffection, opened in London. Colin Wilson, Author of ‘The Outsider,’ Dies at 82 2013-12-12T17:03:34Z

Once a regular old working-class area, Castro transformed throughout the 1960s and 70s into one of the very first gay neighbourhoods in the US, as immortalised in Gus van Sant's Milk. Cine-files: Castro Theatre, San Francisco 2013-06-04T14:05:00Z

It’s true that we don’t see enough working-class people on TV, or military veterans or Hispanic families. Review: The 2017 Class Divide in a New ‘One Day at a Time’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

For Davies he was the violent and domineering working-class patriarch, a bully whose death liberates the entire family. A face we won't forget 2011-01-04T07:00:07Z

On the ground floor’s 218-seat Mead Theatre, more staffers are hanging a bland drop ceiling for “Skeleton Crew,” the Dominique Morisseau working-class drama that’s one of the fall’s most anticipated shows. Production manager Josh Escajeda solves Studio Theatre’s backstage puzzle 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

She was the sole Democrat to oppose the $484 billion coronavirus relief package last year, saying she found it too generous to corporations without providing enough assistance to working-class people. A.O.C.’s Met Gala Dress Triggered Strong Reactions 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

Watching his working-class students eat chicken and rice out of plastic foam containers while he’s lecturing, he deadpans: “I feel like Robert Goulet doing dinner theater.” Books of The Times: An Academic Hit Man Brings More Bad News 2011-04-05T21:12:11Z

“If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that connecting digitally is not enough,” particularly for working-class gay people, he said, like those at Naps. Still Here and Still Queer: The Gay Restaurant Endures 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

In a nutshell, red states were working-class states, while blue states were creative-class states. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z

And yet the realities of working-class life intrude more forcibly than in any other novel of the modern period. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z

Breaking Away A small-town teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team and his three working-class friends are the central characters in US family classic, set in an Indiana college town. Africa United reveals the other side of a continent 2010-10-02T23:07:00Z

Why did a celebrity like Armstrong choose to live the last three decades of his life in a modest house in the working-class Corona neighborhood? 36 Hours in Queens, N.Y. 2012-12-20T17:55:09Z

“Man on Fire,” which sets heartfelt working-class tales to immaculate bluegrass picking, features contributions from onetime Pearl Jam drummer Matt Chamberlain, jazz guitar ace Bill Frisell — who’s up for best instrumental album — and Dave Matthews. Forget Seattle. Rural Washington is ready to rock the Grammys 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

The term 'penny dreadful' refers to cheap Victorian-era books containing tawdry, graphic stories of monsters and murder, and the show is loosely inspired by the tales of horror that thrilled working-class readers. Actor Hartnett takes on mystery and monsters in 'Penny Dreadful' 2014-05-11T22:58:16Z

From the lustrous, mainly black-and-white photography to the cozy camaraderie of its working-class setting, the movie softens edges and hearts alike. ‘Belfast’ Review: A Boy’s Life 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

It’s a tribute to her working-class roots while also signaling her interest in androgyny and other kinds of ambiguity. Sarah Lucas, Unmasked: From Perverse to Profound 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Eighty miles down the M4, the subject matter is rather more down to earth: roundabouts, car factories and the challenge of working-class family life in a provincial town following the death of heavy industry. Take your seats for Swindon: the Opera 2012-07-06T18:17:28Z

The Dardennes, focusing their attention on working-class, French-speaking parts of Belgium, tell stories of individual ethical crises that unfold against a backdrop of poverty and social disruption. ‘Young Ahmed’ Review: Fighting for the Soul of a Teenage Militant 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Republicans, meanwhile, consistently argued for free trade and deregulation, policies that, whatever their general merits, left some working-class voters still worse off. Promises, promises 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

But the heart of Walton’s case against Brown is that while rich business owners have prospered during his tenure, poor and working-class voters have been left behind. In Buffalo, a democratic socialist vies for mayor in a race she thought she’d already won 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

That promise never came to pass, and today the mechanization of labor is increasing more rapidly than ever, dragging legions of once middle- and working-class people into unemployment and despair. Review | The American Worker: Exploited from the beginning 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

It was around the working-class parties that social democratic governments and reforms crystallised. From Marx to the Milibands 2011-01-16T00:04:08Z

They are also business owners, operating a licensed early childhood center that serves working-class families. Undocumented people are planning who will take over their leases and custody of their kids if they’re deported 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

ABC wanted to cater to “white working-class” Trump supporters. Kavanaugh, Kanye, Beyoncé, ‘Black Panther’: Washington on Pop Culture in 2018 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

The soap, set in a fictional working-class district in northwestern England, is one of the most popular programs on British television. 'Coronation Street' actor on child sex charges 2013-02-15T11:40:10Z

Hollywood desperately needs to expand its search for working-class heroes beyond the narrow universe of police officers, firefighters and soldiers. Review: ‘Life on the Line,’ a Plodding View of High-Wire Labor 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Perhaps most fascinatingly, the film implores the older generation to help energise and educate the betrayed working-class youth of today with their knowledge and experience. Trailer Trash 2013-01-20T00:04:06Z

In the 1970s, welterweight boxer Dicky Eklund made local history in that working-class city of Lowell, Mass., by sending Sugar Ray Leonard to the mat. New DVDs | 'The Fighter,' 'Hereafter,' 'The Switch,' 'The Wildest Dream' 2011-03-14T23:55:06Z

Lowry, who died in 1976 at the age of 88, was known for his simple depictions of working-class life. Lowry work fetches record ?5.6m 2011-05-26T17:00:27Z

UVA sociologist Brad Wilcox: Children from poor and working-class homes are now doubly disadvantaged by their parents’ economic meager resources and by the fact that their parents often break up. Men aren’t ending 2012-09-11T17:56:00Z

A fresh, frank and rather realistic tale of a self-assertive young mom, told from a working-class perspective, starring a woman who also runs the show. Review | ‘SMILF’ is another cable dramedy that has the moves, but not the meaning 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

Most gangster movies focus on the big bosses and godfathers; “Goodfellas” and its descendants are about the grinders, the middlemen, the working-class thugs. How ‘Goodfellas’ and the Gangster Class of 1990 Changed Hollywood 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Menial tasks like child care have, historically, been relegated to working-class women, who give up domestic autonomy to live in intimate proximity to their employers while remaining employees. Vivian Maier and the Problem of Difficult Women 2014-05-10T04:00:00Z

Still, this is a movie that prioritizes language—Wilson’s poetic, furious patois of black working-class Pittsburgh, a gift to actors like Washington and Viola Davis. Oscar Spotlight: The Screenplays 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

The soap, set in a fictional working-class district in northwestern England, is among the longest-running programs on British television. British soap opera star denies child sex charges 2013-05-02T15:49:07Z

In that and the Anchorman movies, and here too, he’s not mean, exactly — just stupendously ignorant of certain social niceties and stupefyingly oblivious to the working-class people around him. Don't Tell Anyone, But I Kind of Liked Get Hard 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

You don't hear white, working-class opinions often enough on TV. Richard Klein on why BBC4 is the corporation's best-loved channel 2010-10-11T06:00:00Z

That Disney dollar is not to be sneered at, especially for a “proudly working-class” girl from north London. Kaya Scodelario: 'Nine times out of 10, my character is with a guy twice my age' 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

They were prepared to take these unproven working-class performers and give them big opportunities early on. Gary Oldman: from Sid to Smiley: the rollercoaster story of a true British great 2012-02-09T18:59:00Z

We shared a deep hatred for our working-class suburban town just over the city line from Queens, and we planned to get out as soon as we could. The One Thing We Couldn’t Talk About 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

The song's lyrics address the difficulties of working-class struggle, taxes, social welfare systems and suicide rates. Marjorie Taylor Greene says new viral country song is the "anthem of the forgotten Americans" 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z

His father also encouraged him, his brother and his sisters, to watch television dramas by Dennis Potter and Ken Loach, as well as the sitcoms of working-class life that still fascinate him today. George Shaw 2011-02-13T00:05:02Z

It may be a working-class trait, to assume that your own life, your own experience, is not remarkable. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z

But his comments about Gillis seemed theatrically naïve and self-serving, an attempt to reach working-class whites psychically wounded by automation. Andrew Yang and the Political Narratives of Asian-Americans 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Both in Haiti, where I was born during a ruthless dictatorship, and in New York, where I migrated to a working-class, predominantly African-American and Caribbean neighborhood in Brooklyn at the age of twelve. Michael Brown, Abner Louima, and the Anguish of Police Brutality 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

The programme took him back to the south London council house he grew up in with his working-class Irish parents and numerous siblings. Rewind TV: Panda Makers; Operation Mincemeat; The House That Made Me; The Day John Lennon Died; The Nation's Favourite Abba Song 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

Aida Award-winning sitcom about a working-class woman who inherits her father's house and moves in with her kids. Spain in lists: Chart-topping singles, favourite TV programmes and bestselling books 2011-03-28T07:00:03Z

The musical recounts the rise of an actress from working-class New York to film and Broadway stardom, and features such songs as “People” and “Don’t Rain on My Parade.” 'Funny Girl' Secures Transfer to West End, Before It Even Opens 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Because of the Wallachs’ working-class New York roots — both were raised in Brooklyn — they were dubbed “the Proletarian Lunts.” Anne Jackson, theater stalwart who teamed onstage with husband Eli Wallach, dies at 90 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

After Booth’s death, the working-class widow becomes Turner’s enduring mistress, in one of the film’s few acknowledgments of human tenderness. Review: Mr. Turner: A Sour Man With a Painterly Genius 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

Like many postwar planning projects, Lafayette Park rose on the former site of a working-class African-American neighborhood. Lafayette Park in Detroit Granted Landmark Status 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

Her new home is a small one bedroom apartment in a predominantly Latino working-class, gang-riddled neighborhood in Los Angeles, where she and her brother and sister sleep in the living room. Never stop crossing borders 2013-01-27T15:59:00Z

"But then the Conservatives have never cared about working-class people." Rap responds to the riots: 'They have to take us seriously' 2011-08-12T17:15:46Z

He also discovers all the ways working-class people are preyed upon. "I'm a Virgo": Boots Riley's incredible, ungentle giant swing at late capitalism 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

Most importantly, there was something new in that he was a working-class man writing about a working-class man. Sons and Lovers: a bad book by a very good writer 2013-06-20T15:35:02Z

But would we have been better off keeping some estates exclusively for the white working-class? TV review: Waking the Dead and The Great Estate 2011-04-11T21:01:00Z

Moore's coming of age as a working-class malcontent is, however, something to behold. Filmmaker Michael Moore's early life 2011-09-16T20:20:05Z

The new comedy has Lopez playing a divorced, working-class Mexican American-turned-successful entrepreneur who gets caught between two cultures: the parenting demands of his Anglo ex-wife and the cultural expectations of his overbearing Mexican-American mother. George Lopez debuts new show on FX 2014-03-05T19:38:39Z

Every working-class geezer knew where he was coming from. John Cooper Clarke: 'It's diabolical how poor I am' 2012-05-29T18:00:02Z

In this charming memoir, the director Kenneth Branagh recalls, through a rose-tinted lens and black-and-white photography, his working-class childhood in a turbulent Northern Ireland. At the Oscar Nominees Luncheon: Glamour, Griping and Gluten-Free Meals 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious argued that the Pistols were all theirs, an organic expression of working-class rage. What’s on TV Tuesday 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

Because of this, it is often criticised as somehow undermining the building of a multiracial working-class movement. Kimberlé Crenshaw: the woman who revolutionised feminism – and landed at the heart of the culture wars 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

The trouble with this view is that, while Trump has his share of disaffected white working-class voters, the correlation between Trumpism and economic discontent is a false one, as has been demonstrated many times. Why Trump Is Different—and Must Be Repelled 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Graves was worried he couldn’t pull it off, because “he’d never played a working-class type,” Ivory said. James Ivory and the Making of a Historic Gay Love Story 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

With remarkable precision and emotional weight, these stories depict working-class Glasgow: slummy, rowdy, tribal, drunken, despondent, quixotic and irrepressible. Shrewd Short Stories That Merge the Hopeless and the Hopeful 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Yet even as working-class whites across the country are dying off, Lewiston is now one of the few places in Maine where the population is growing, and this is largely due to Somalis. As Maine goes, so goes the nation: Will this small city’s mayoral election predict a Trump victory in 2016? 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

Since then he has published four further novels about ordinary working-class Scottish lives, and been described as "the greatest living British novelist". James Kelman 2012-07-29T19:00:01Z

But stillness returns as a window washer appears dangling outside their apartment window, a working-class reminder that their frustrations are ridiculous. The recession and its discontents in films by Cao Fei at the Mistake Room 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

In the 1960s, Italy’s schools were reformed to be more inclusive of poor and working-class children, but the changes sparked a conservative backlash. Famous in Italy, Rodari Reaches U.S. Shores With ‘Telephone Tales’ 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

“Kyle was brought up around a working-class family and knew his morals, and loved nothing more than being a dad and playing football,” she told me. ‘Intimate terrorism’: how an abusive relationship led a young woman to kill her partner 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

A thrilling j’accuse, “Common People” airs out the stink of condescending classism pervading not only the minds of affluent exchange students but also popular depictions of British working-class life. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

The plot of a purloined novel, “The Pirate Lover,” runs parallel to the lives of Neave and Lilly, two sisters in working-class Massachusetts. New in Paperback: ‘Augustown,’ ‘The Storied City’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

In 1912, coal miners went on a national strike for the first time, hoping to secure a minimum wage and highlighting how miserable life was for many working-class people. ‘Downton Abbey’ and the History of Difficult Royal Visits 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z

The protagonist Archie Bunker was modeled after Lear’s own father: He was a working-class, seemingly uneducated and outspoken but “lovable” bigot. How Mister Rogers’ faith shaped his idea of children’s television 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

The setting is the working-class Midlands world in which the self-taught director grew up and which he has never left. Britain's best film directors show some early promise 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

I feel that generation, especially the more working-class actors like Richard Burton, had a little discomfort with the profession in terms of putting on tights and makeup. The ‘Jaws’ Shoot Was a Drama. Now It’s a Play. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

That working-class story includes a father who drove a milk truck and a mother who survived the 1918 flu pandemic but died of Alzheimer’s. The Markey-Kennedy Senate primary battle is one Democrats wish wasn’t happening 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

But even after the success of “A Night to Remember” Rank decided not to support his pet project, an adaptation of “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, ”Alan Sillitoe’s harsh novel about a working-class roué. Roy Ward Baker, Prolific British Filmmaker, Dies at 93 2010-10-08T05:43:00Z

He's got a little twang of a London working-class accent called "mockney" because the character is not royalty. "Prince of Persia" director worried film may be homogenous 2010-05-26T03:39:00Z

The real problem is that “The Affair” itself has never exactly seen her as more than a victim and a bundle of guilt, neurosis and small-town, working-class awkwardness. ‘The Affair’ Season 2 Episode 5: Never Read the Book 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

One of his whimsical period numbers, made in 1987 but set in the early 1940s, it's a compilation of daft, funny vignettes about working-class Brooklyn life during the so-called golden age of radio. Is Black Music; Downtown Soulville: a week in radio 2013-01-17T17:00:01Z

Black Sabbath have always seemed hard, resulting from their working-class upbringing in the grim West Midlands.  Black Sabbath on the occult, God, cocaine and reuniting for new album 13 2013-06-06T16:35:50Z

Harris and Zucker were both born in Brooklyn, to what they describe as “middle- and working-class” parents. How two professors transformed the teaching of art history 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Affecting a not-entirely-convincing working-class London accent, Lane gamely tries to make hay of the tedious bluster of Mac’s conceit, about the bloody mess we’re all now in, and how we deal with the aftermath. Review | Nathan Lane and Adam Driver are both starring on Broadway. Only one of them gives us a good time. 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z

Somehow, the discovery that Bowie's most famous backing band weren't from outer space but were ordinary northern working-class blokes with Yorkshire accents didn't break the spell but strengthened it. How the Spiders from Hull changed rock 2013-05-22T15:59:17Z

But Goldwyn and screenwriter Pamela Gray don't run away from the story's less comforting realities, and cinematographer Adriano Goldman captures working-class existence in rural Massachusetts and Rhode Island without romanticism or condescension. "Conviction": Oscar bait, dosed with gloom 2010-10-14T18:15:00Z

Cemetery Junction itself is presented in the film as a working-class suburb with its own train station and stone maisonettes. The Cemetery Junction where I grew up 2010-04-29T15:24:00Z

One of the advertising slogans was “15 minutes a day,” the amount of time an upward aspiring working-class reader might invest to achieve the equivalent of a liberal university education. Emily Dickinson, British Abolitionism and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

When Polly left her husband as the result of his affair with a neighbor, the author reminds us, divorce was economically impossible for working-class women. Review | Jack the Ripper’s identity has been endlessly scrutinized. His victims were largely forgotten. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

After the first of the Chinese-exclusionary laws was passed by Congress, in 1882, working-class Chinese men and women were only allowed into the U.S. if they could prove that they were related to American citizens. The Lost Poetry of the Angel Island Detention Center 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

"Attack the Block" is a British alien-invasion thriller that ingeniously blends two disparate strains of Anglo cinema, or maybe three: working-class realism, social comedy and science fiction. "Attack the Block": Aliens in the hood, London-style 2011-07-29T19:30:00Z

Before Florence Nightingale’s reforms in professionalising nursing in the mid-19th century, nurses were working-class women considered to be on a social level with sex workers. Health warning: why the sexy nurse stereotype is no laughing matter 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

I might even dust down that pilot I once wrote, about a working-class lad becoming prime minister. The media class, not the middle class, are the BBC's problem 2011-01-26T12:39:16Z

A quirky standby is Mount Pleasant, a working-class district near Main Street and Broadway that is becoming cooler by the minute. 2010-02-12T04:18:00Z

Though he got to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the age of 17, he thought he was seen as too short and too "working-class" to play the bland upper-class juvenile leads then popular. Bryan Forbes: British writer, actor and film director 2013-05-09T07:27:27Z

Both men were the children of working-class parents. “The Defiant Ones”: Two hip-hop legends made human at long last 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

Politics were tuned up in everything from larks like “As Thousands Cheer” to serious working-class crusades like “The Cradle Will Rock.” Song and dance as a political ‘Fix’ 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Starr now has to figure out how to respond to the injustice while operating in two distinct worlds — Garden Heights, her working-class, predominantly black neighborhood, and Williamson, her wealthy, predominantly white private school. In the Black Lives Matter era, Hollywood stories tackle the ‘identity crisis’ of black police officers 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

It is not a jukebox musical, nor a “Billy Elliot,” nor a show that traffics, “Full Monty” or “Kinky Boots”-style, in working-class factory comedy. Sting's former self is at the center of 'Last Ship' 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

This semi-autobiographical novel is about a 7-year-old boy and his two brothers, all trying to find their place in upstate New York, where they do not fit in with the white working-class children. 20 Years of L.G.B.T.Q. Lit: A Timeline 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

Determined to get away from her working-class Belfast roots, she uses funds acquired by dubious and self-destructive means to buy musical equipment. Huzzies – review 2012-10-29T17:41:28Z

It's a book about British society, working-class culture, families, Manchester, Belfast and Dudley. Anthony Cartwright: 'The title is intended to provoke a reaction' 2012-08-04T23:05:22Z

Another female writer whose work I admire is Le Minh Khue, whose short story collection “The Stars, The Earth, The River” is mainly set in Hanoi’s working-class neighborhoods and depicts a grittier city. Read Your Way Through Hanoi 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z

Some of the raspberry-blowers are well known, but it's those displaced by developers and Olympic Delivery Authority henchmen – boaters, allotment gardeners, working-class Londoners, Romani men and women – whose presence most haunts each page. The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London's Olympic State edited by Hilary Powell and Isaac Marrero-Guillamón 2012-07-31T10:45:01Z

He never married but is believed to have fathered 14 children by his models and other working-class women. Klimt’s Women, Real and on Canvas 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

“There’s a working-class grounding in Imelda’s work, completely truthful and rooted in the real world, that she brings from her own background.” Imelda Staunton on Return to Musicals With Sondheim Roles 2012-08-10T01:35:08Z

Ringo never forgot his origins as a son of working-class Liverpool. Preview: How cool is Ringo? Here are some reminders 2010-07-29T20:34:00Z

Evans took on Endeavour Morse when he was in his early 30s and looked the part of an eager university intellectual in a room full of working-class men who teased the green off him. As "Endeavour" enters its final run we bit a sober farewell to the detective who isn't yet bitter 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z

David Robert Jones was born on Jan. 8, 1947, in Brixton, a working-class south London neighborhood scarred by World War II bomb blasts. David Bowie dies at 69; mesmerizing performer and restless innovator 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

“I think Mom was always more interested in telling stories of working-class people,” Tracy Letts said in an interview on Monday. Billie Letts, ‘Where the Heart Is’ Novelist, Dies at 76 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

I'm a working-class former apprentice electrician; at the age of 14, if you'd told me I would one day be standing on a stage with Mel Brooks, I'd have thought you were off your head. Portrait of the artist: John Gordon Sinclair, actor 2011-01-31T22:30:00Z

For Whigs, the way forward was to offer reform, just enough to detach the middle classes from their alliance with working-class reformers and so hopefully to prevent an explosion. Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser – review 2013-05-03T07:00:17Z

This was an unusual aspiration for a Southern woman from a large, working-class Protestant family. The Cutting Mind and Romantic Heart of Elizabeth Hardwick 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

She shares a particularly stirring moment with Rosamund Pike, who plays an upper-class woman who regrets leaving her career for marriage and is thus inspired to cheer on her working-class sister. 'Made in Dagenham' Review: Sally Hawkins Asserts Women's Rights 2010-12-14T05:15:00Z

Many of the characters are hard-bitten, working-class women fleeing domestic nightmares — and whose lives end tragically. Music Review: Norbert Leo Butz Sings in ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ 2013-06-23T20:04:16Z

Salon spoke to Harris over the phone about Montessori’s mistakes, Asian-American kids’ deference levels, and why working-class kids ask fewer questions. ?Why won?t you answer me?? 2012-05-20T18:00:00Z

My grandfather delivered bread by horse and wagon to the working-class Jewish community on the Westside, then Savannah’s shtetl of striving Eastern European immigrants. My Search for Lost Time in a Slice of Jewish Rye 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

At first he was the working-class foil to the intellectual Morse. Review: In Final Season of ‘Inspector Lewis,’ Solving Mysteries While Navigating a New Boss 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Smarsh’s book follows Parton’s rise to iconic status through the context of the singer’s roots, and of the working-class, rural roots of many of her fans. Dolly Parton and the Women Who Love Her 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

"It is safe to suggest that many working-class brothers in particular believe Jesus was Black, and therefore, so are historical Jews." "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

As poverty rates soar — due in part to policies such as cutting pandemic aid for poor and working-class people — new rules that kicked in September 1 only add to the suffering. Food stamp work rules harm older, poor Americans 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z

I was good at writing for the English working-class boys in my early days, and when we started to work in America I got a bit lost. 2010-01-30T03:25:00Z

The plots run closely parallel: Young Billy, an aspiring ballet star, grows up in a macho working-class world where he is expected to become a miner like his dad. London Theater Journal: Make 'Em Dream 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

“Saturday Night Fever” originated in a New York magazine article by Nik Cohn reporting from Brooklyn on a new youth culture developed by working-class, mainly Italian-American teenagers. ‘Saturday Night Fever’ at 40: You Should Still Be Dancing 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

And so began the 50-year narrative that propelled Joe into the White House: Scrappy, working-class family man beats the odds and prevails. Analysis | Ten things we learned from the new Valerie Biden Owens book 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

“Don’t boffer about it,” my nephew apologized in his working-class London accent. WATCH: “Forever Pure” exposes raw prejudice on the soccer field when foreign recruits arrive 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

But then you go to a fan gathering like HorrorHound Weekend in this working-class Cincinnati suburb, as I did last month, and it becomes clear: Do not mess with women who are into gore. A Sisterhood of Scares 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

How often do a neighborhood’s longtime working-class residents and its experimental arts hubs meet? Review: The Footwear Follies of ‘Zapatografía/Shoegraphy’ 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Mr. Toussaint rose from a humble, working-class neighborhood in New Orleans to become an influential leader of the city’s R&B scene. Allen Toussaint, New Orleans R&B Musician, Dies at 77 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Gavron portrays the suffrage crusade as a working-class movement, one whose members are bludgeoned with societal contempt and police blackjacks. Review: An Uneven Vote in Suffragette 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The working-class city hasn’t had access to clean, safe water since 2014. This is our "Chernobyl": Frontline's "Flint's Deadly Water" exposes shocking Legionnaires' crisis 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Half a century ago, the Marseille quarter where I lived was staunchly working-class and communist. Perspective | What is it about France? A book lover revisits his past and celebrates the present 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Is he really getting late-night text messages from agents, and receiving paltry cash payments in cars on the back streets of working-class Pittsburgh? “(T)error” goes inside the FBI’s crappy, incompetent and thoroughly deceptive anti-terror campaign 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Of the 18 films competing for the Palme, presumed favorites include the languorous Turkish film “Winter Sleep,” the small-town Russian epic “Leviathan” and the French working-class drama “Two Days, One Night.” Predicting the Palme d’Or a guessing game 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

His eyes are fixed on a working-class man leaning against the bridge railing. Review: Paris Is Reborn in ‘Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter’s Eye’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Across Britain, working-class people are the most likely to speak with accents that mark out where they are from and are the furthest removed from Queen's English. Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing a working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

Unlike those intentionally segregated urban neighborhoods, which blossomed in the years after the 1969 Stonewall uprising, this one is based on what its developers think locals need and will support in this solidly working-class city. In Cleveland, They’re Cooking Up a Gay Neighborhood From Scratch 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

That's what his parents wanted: it was the safe, secure route for a young man with working-class roots and a face few would describe as handsome. Actor Pete Postlethwaite dies after long cancer battle 2011-01-03T15:16:00Z

I was an artsy, down-to-earth Canadian who grew up in a working-class family of Holocaust survivors. Motherlode Blog: The 13-Page Preschool Application 2014-02-11T20:37:14Z

Suzanne campaigned for an innovative school system which would do justice to the potential of working-class pupils. Suzanne Lang obituary 2011-03-28T17:19:13Z

Some rich people have so much shame surrounding their privilege when any working-class person would revel in the privilege that celebrities want to pretend they don't have. Why do some celebrities pretend to have struggling, working-class backgrounds? 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z

She is one of the few public figures with seemingly bipartisan appeal, celebrated by some as a working-class Southern hero and venerated by others for her support for L.G.B.T.Q. rights and unapologetic kitsch. Dolly Parton and James Patterson Are Working 9 to 5 on a Novel 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

Lorraine Hansberry’s play, set in 1950s Chicago, centers on a struggling working-class black family anxiously awaiting a $10,000 insurance check and the ensuing squabbles over how to spend it. LaTanya Richardson Jackson cheered at elegant tea 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

But unlike the equivalent Hemingway hangouts around the world, La Guadalupana has not become an overpriced tourist trap: it retains its old-fashioned working-class charm, bullfighting decor and good service. Frida Kahlo’s neighbourhood: exploring vibrant Coyoacán, Mexico City 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Coinciding with the announcement of a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation, Mosley released this collection of 16 stories about chronically misunderstood working-class Black men. 50 notable works of fiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Still, he reveals his own biases once again when the case leads him to the working-class district of Giudecca. Evils Lurking Beneath a City’s Centuries-Old Canals 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

James had spent years working a double day in a factory and as a housewife: she knew what working-class women felt about factory work: "They walk in, they run out." A life in writing: Selma James 2012-06-08T21:45:05Z

Eli Wallach, who died on Tuesday at the age of 98, was an actor whose working-class demeanor often led to typecasting and character parts on the big screen. Eli Wallach, an Actors Studio veteran and theater stalwart 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

"Saturday Night Fever," the story of a working-class Brooklyn youth trying to break out of his dead-end life through dancing, launched Travolta as an international movie star. You could be dancing ... on 'Saturday Night Fever' disco floor 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Nichols describes his own working-class upbringing and the men who shaped it, instilling values of hard work, modesty and willingness to take responsibility. Perspective | The weird masculinity of Donald Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Behar then talked about her experiences growing up in a working-class family and attending a city school. "It helps to be born rich": "View” co-hosts criticize Kim Kardashian’s "tone deaf" advice for women 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

These women who talk with a broad “ah” and curse a lot are working-class heroines, striving to better themselves — despite smothering families, loser boyfriends and dead-end jobs. The TV Watch: The Wahlberg Family Business Grows With ‘Breaking Boston’ 2014-03-12T21:09:49Z

It’s a lot of alienated, disaffected suburban and working-class white Americans. Behind Dylann Roof’s race war: The highly motivated secret white supremacy movement working toward “the battle of Armageddon” 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

He himself plays the bullying club owner at odds with his former star, whom Phil Rowson endows with the right working-class obduracy. The Game 2010-09-26T20:29:00Z

We're talking about working-class guys with raw edges and frayed nerves who are not without their moments of both high comedy and deeply-felt introspection. 'Lakeboat': Salty language and guy insecurities worth 3 1/2 stars 2011-01-21T18:28:01Z

In a political culture constantly paying homage to the working-class creed, few would — or should — say that such blue-collar laborers must simply “shut up and work.” Skin-heads eye Euro 2012 2012-06-08T16:15:00Z

Wright’s groundbreaking trilogy about the down-and-out New York City life of a solitary, working-class intellectual originally came out between 1963 and 1973. New in Paperback: ‘The Big Fella’ and ‘Identity’ 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

Also present in even the earliest Op stories are the working-class resentments and nativist politics that, like it or not, would become essential elements of the hard-boiled formula. The nameless detective who launched Dashiell Hammett’s career 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

He spent much of his life traveling, and his novels frequently contrived to transport working-class Englishmen to foreign lands. Alan Sillitoe, ?Angry? British Author, Dies at 82 2010-04-26T04:37:00Z

PBS gears up for Rio with “The Boys of ’36,” about the working-class American rowers who took the gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. What’s on TV Tuesday 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

The Who were just a hard-drinking rock 'n' roll band, dealing with the kind of working-class stuff that became the essence of what happened later on with Bruce Springsteen. 2010-01-30T03:25:00Z

That coalition broke down during the upheavals of the 1950s and 1960s, beginning with the civil rights movement, as white working-class voters began to drift away. Steps in the Left Direction 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a newly installed dressing room from the 1880s was custom-made for Arabella Worsham, a Southerner from a working-class family who reinvented herself as a Manhattan arts patron. The Period Room as Reconstruction Site 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

She was a working-class girl getting an excellent education on the sheer force of her smarts, ambition and scholarships. I loved girls, but no one knew 2012-06-27T13:00:00Z

The young adult author Sara Zarr’s middle grade debut, “A Song Called Home,” skews more pensive, with a deeply affecting depiction of a working-class Christian family in flux. In-Betweens: 2 Middle Grade Novels About the Costs and Benefits of Being 11 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Life in the Winstone household sounds almost like a caricature of a working-class boy done good. 'I used to be a raving lunatic' 2010-09-02T20:00:00Z

I grew up in what used to be called a working-class household. Who cares about culture cuts when Top Gear is doing well in Poland? 2010-05-12T21:35:00Z

The keen race goer also fulfilled a lifelong dream with the purchase of Patinack Farm and bought both the major sports teams in his adopted working-class coal-mining town of Newcastle. Australia's Tinkler sells horse stud in coal comeback bid 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

She’s working-class; he comes from an Italian clan that made a fortune in motor vehicles and tires. Rachel Kushner’s ambitious new novel scares male critics 2013-06-05T23:00:00Z

Children of deprived inner-city areas – like my father – would be sent on these trips, their working-class families saving money to buy shoes for the trip, the boys with skinheads. Danny DeVito: I still miss my father 2012-06-15T23:05:18Z

I was born in Manchester and I grew up in a working-class tradition of self-help that included Worker's Extension Lectures and the Mechanics Institute – one of many radical and pioneering Manchester initiatives for uneducated workers. Jeanette Winterson: teaching creative writing 2012-05-18T21:50:01Z

"Coronation Street," set in a fictional working-class district in northwestern England, is among the longest-running programs on British television. 'Coronation Street' actor faces new charges 2013-06-06T20:16:04Z

The first part of the book chronicles the life of the family’s patriarch, Arthur Sackler, the eldest of three brothers born in the early 1900s to Jewish immigrant parents in working-class Brooklyn. Patrick Radden Keefe Lays Bare a Drug Crisis Fueled by Family Greed 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

All three families – black, white, Hispanic, middle- and working-class, three different states – require childcare to stay afloat. 'It's a wake-up call': behind the film urging investment in pre-school education 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

Catering primarily to working-class loyalists, Prakash is not about haute cuisine or ambience. Bites: Restaurant Review: Prakash, in Mumbai 2010-03-19T15:31:00Z

I come from a working-class family, and I’ve been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. Patti Smith, Survivor 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

Another bookstore that deserves your attention is 1DASUL, run by the writer Ferréz — a bookstore that serves a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of São Paulo. Read Your Way Through São Paulo 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

She is a babbling mess with no place to go except the humble home of her working-class sister Ginger, played by British actress Sally Hawkins. Woody Allen's 'Blue Jasmine:' portrait of a lady who loses it all 2013-07-26T01:31:45Z

Patrick’s more traditional working-class relatives don’t understand why their family hero has to give up glory and big purses to be Mr. Mom. | 'Lights Out': With a Life on the Ropes, Seeking Redemption in the Ring 2011-01-10T23:08:16Z

It’s not as if working-class people don’t take the train. Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z

I'm also pleased that somebody is making very personal, very popular movies dealing with the contemporary middle- and working-class blacks, and the prickly suspicions between the two groups. Madea's Big Happy Family: Tyler Perry's Drag Ball 2011-04-24T14:05:00Z

The obvious takeaway: It is a money city, far less friendly to working-class and middle-class people than it was a generation or two ago. The City That Won’t Shut Up Fills Two New Books With Its Babble 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

That political agenda comes from her own left-wing convictions, and she wants to tell working-class stories as well as those of inspirational women. Maxine Peake hails her sporting hero 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

He branched out into movies and television work in the 1980s, most often taking roles as an occasionally menacing working-class figure. Actor Pete Postlethwaite dies after long cancer battle 2011-01-03T15:16:00Z

Ms. Aubert thought the invasion was a little clichéd — all those sun-soaked bottles of pastis — but was impressed that the artist made it beyond the Vieux Port and into the working-class districts in the north. Flash Invaders: Another Game for a World on Pause 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z

In a visionary yet risky attempt to entice new audiences to classical music, the complex is in Northeast Paris, near the ring road that separates the city center from its poorer, working-class suburbs. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

While the cause needs intellectuals — what Lenin might call a revolutionary vanguard — a working-class movement depends, after all, on the working class. Yes, there are socialists in D.C. You just haven’t looked hard enough. 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Together with your abstemious partner, you explore a washed-up, working-class coastal town, interrogating mostly uncoöperative residents as you piece together the broader socioeconomic context of the killing. The Best Video Games of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Begin at the KW Institute of Contemporary Art and you hit a wall-size installation of photographs and video interviews of working-class Portuguese and Turkish immigrants in Paris in the 1980s. Berlin Biennale Wrestles With Big Issues (and Itself) 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

These art installations, while intended to be whimsical and humorous, nevertheless relegate a working-class, Italian American identity to an outsider status. How MTV's "Jersey Shore" fetishized the Guido, a subversive ethnic stereotype that America disdained 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

As for gangster films, with their dreadful middle-class cringe, and uniquely distasteful celebration of working-class criminal mores, the less said the better, which is why The Sopranos was such a breath of fresh cordite. The debate: Can British TV produce drama as good as Mad Men? 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z

For even in the 1970s such series were popular more with northern working-class audiences than with the suburbs and Americans. The new Upstairs, Downstairs is more period than drama 2010-12-27T12:00:00Z

The vision of Ms. Ryan, who so often plays hard-bitten, working-class women, in professional clothes is welcome. The Week Ahead: Oct. 24-30 2010-10-24T01:00:00Z

Russell Banks, whose vivid portrayals of working-class Americans grappling with issues of poverty, race and class placed him among the first ranks of contemporary novelists, died on Sunday at his home in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Russell Banks, Novelist Steeped in the Working Class, Dies at 82 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

Loach’s father was an electrician who became a foreman in his factory in Nuneaton – a classic working-class Tory, he says. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

Emblematic of this fast-changing, formerly working-class neighborhood, Demente is a trendy tapas bar housed in what is supposedly the area’s oldest home. 36 Hours in Cartagena, Colombia 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Strong unions helped keep wages high, local political power brokers and party bosses made sure that working-class needs were represented in the marble corridors, and mass-membership organizations put a check on runaway greed by elites. Why Do Trump Supporters Support Trump? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Davies’s own family and upbringing in Liverpool — he was the youngest of 10 children in a working-class Catholic family — has been the central subject of much of his work. Terence Davies, Unfiltered and Bitter 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

But the Democrats’ difficulties winning working-class votes in the Midwest was a real problem, with no clear solution. Sherrod Brown thinks he could have helped Democrats win in 2016. But what about 2020? 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

Before the big freeze of 62-63, British film and music had been all about working-class heroes, skiffle and trad jazz. The Servant was modern, mod and modish 2013-03-18T06:00:00Z

Yet everyone from wealthy mainland tourists snapping up Prada bags to working-class teens singing carols in McDonald’s gets into the holiday spirit. My atheist Christmas in China 2013-12-24T00:00:00Z

In 1867, he proposed the Reform Act that enfranchised working-class voters for the first time. One nation in one man: the portrait of Benjamin Disraeli 2012-10-03T14:52:44Z

The working-class neighborhoods where many of its artists lived were being rapidly gentrified. Art in Review: ?Graphic Radicals?: ?30 Years of World War 3 Illustrated? 2011-01-13T22:00:04Z

Behind us is a working-class Irish Catholic neighborhood with houses flying green, white and orange Irish flags, and murals of local heroes and causes — boxers, released political prisoners, martyrs from the Troubles. The murals on Belfast’s ‘peace walls’ offer an illustrated history of the Troubles 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

I never really lacked confidence as a working-class kid. T Magazine: The Manhattan Project 2012-11-30T14:00:46Z

On a Saturday in late October, in the working-class Boston suburb of Revere, an organization called the Fatherhood Project held a scheduled playgroup for dads and kids. Absent father no longer: men confront stereotypes to become involved parents 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

Three sisters and their mother are at the center of this stereotypical east of the mountains, working-class, beer-drinking family where disasters fall like Seattle rain. In ‘Bachman,’ disorderly lives make a messy production 2013-02-07T23:23:34Z

What is interesting in the storytelling of the South Asian experience, often there is an emphasis is in middle class, and the working-class experience doesn't get seen. Ravi Kapoor on his comedy "Four Samosas": "I always wanted to make a lo-fi heist movie" 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Born in 1942 in eastern England, where his mother had moved to escape wartime bombing, Hoskins was raised in a working-class part of north London. 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' actor Hoskins dies at 71 2014-05-01T11:01:43Z

Pip, raised by a country working-class family, will be a gentleman. Beyond Expectations: Rereading Dickens 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

A few years ago, there was a surge in working-class, motorcycle alpha dudes, but that’s over. Heaving bosoms and joyous endings conquer Capitol Hill 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

The excellent cast and Billy Bragg's musical contributions lift the play with songs about a white, working-class family facing up to who they are in a changing world. Pressure Drop 2010-04-25T22:05:00Z

Though the location in Texas is unspecified, grassy flatlands, gravel roads and isolated bungalows suggest these are rural, working-class parts. ‘Cusp’ Review: Teenage Girls, Stuck With Shrugging Off Harm 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

First, though, one must overlook the seven-part limited series' resemblance to any number of working-class grim tales about murder in small towns, Sally Wainwright's "Happy Valley" foremost among them. With HBO's "Mare of Easttown," come for the murder but stay for Kate Winslet and Jean Smart 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

Stable, working-class communities became destitute, leading to widespread poverty and addiction. How ‘Shuggie Bain’ Became This Year’s Breakout Debut 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

In trying to produce chirpy, working-class drama, they've succeeded in patronising all concerned in the way that, say, Linda Green just didn't. Tonight's TV highlights: Wonder Dogs: Medical Marvels 2011-04-04T23:05:01Z

But before he died in 1982 at age 42, he produced nine novels, most notably “Jack’s Return Home,” in which a working-class hard guy/hit man avenges the death of his brother. The coldly brilliant crime novel, ‘GBH,’ by Ted Lewis 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

It showed everyday life: a man fishing, a full-hipped woman jogging and working-class shoppers in outdoor food markets. ‘Ridicule’: The French Reaction to ‘Emily in Paris’ 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

While most just nod, working-class people tend to look a little confused, and the upper class ask if I’m “like a nanny for poor people”. What I’m really thinking: the au pair 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

White working-class voters, ignored or disdained by the richer, better-educated political class, seem to have decided that, since Europe was doing very little for them, they had nothing to lose by leaving it. On Brexit, the 2016 Euro Championship, and Trump 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Terry Street chronicled the life of a working-class area of Hull and was regarded as groundbreaking at the time. Poet Douglas Dunn wins Queen's medal 2013-12-18T13:13:11Z

An examination of working-class Americans across the country, from their personal struggles to their successes. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Another tells of a songbird competition held by working-class men in Lisbon. ‘Arabian Nights’ in Portugal Looks at a Gloomy Nation 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

In the early years of cinema, many of the first regular moviegoers were working-class immigrants. Hollywood’s Diversity Problem and Undocumented Immigrants 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

"Roseanne," the hit 1990s television comedy about a working-class American family, could be on its way back, Hollywood trade publications reported on Friday, marking the latest in a trend for revivals of 20-year-old shows. Comedy series 'Roseanne' could be latest U.S. television comeback 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

I was a runty little working-class boy who failed his 11-plus and dropped out of school. Talkin' 'bout my generation 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

They named the group after Buraca, a working-class section of Amadora with a large population of immigrants from Angola and Mozambique, former Portuguese colonies, and spelled it with a K because it seemed cooler. Buraka Som Sistema Reveals Lisbon’s Musical Melting Pot 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Which left the white working-class guy and gal up for grabs — open to right-wing populists, maybe even strongmen. Richard Rorty’s 1998 Book Suggested Election 2016 Was Coming 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

Graduates from privileged backgrounds still go on to earn £5,000 a year more than their working-class peers. The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Growing up in a working-class neighborhood in the Corona section of Queens, Mr. Young got an early taste of the streets. Burt Young, ‘Rocky’ Actor Who Played Complex Tough Guys, Dies at 83 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z

I must also admit I'm struggling to recognise these "diminishing opportunities for working-class artists" you mention. Is pop too posh? 2013-03-30T18:00:01Z

We could have preserved diversity of income and race; many working-class white families, especially returning war veterans, needed apartments in the 1950s and would have preferred heterogenous housing developments to living with their in-laws. A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Snooker, Mr. Bean explained, “is sociologically quite interesting, because it’s a working-class game.” He Knows His Way Around a Half-Butt (That’s Snooker Talk) 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

While children and students engaged warmly with artists at their installations, a photo project in working-class Kamalondo brought skepticism from local people, who pulled down the poster images within two days. On the Frontier, the Lubumbashi Biennial Makes Art From Obstacles 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

Colin Alec Todd Thomas was a working-class Tory and self-employed builder who discovered a love of opera as an adult and, like many a late convert, his zeal burned brightly. Comedian Mark Tomas: why I wrote a show about my dad 2012-08-06T17:35:04Z

The debut Amsterdam outing meanders through the leafy Jordaan neighborhood, formerly a working-class area in the heart of town and now filled with specialty shops and restaurants. In Amsterdam, a New Food Tour 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

“A bunch of working-class musicians, you know, around the big sun. You know, I mean we circle around the Springsteen sphere a little bit.” Bruce Springsteen Won’t Be at Inauguration, but His Music Might 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

The Detroit area native's working-class identity and no-frills approach counter those of peers that changed their sound or lost touch with their roots. Bob Seger never forgets 2011-05-15T14:44:00Z

Good old working-class beer, but with artistic accents of fruit like blueberry and grape. Review: In ‘Cal in Camo,’ a Raw Welcome to Motherhood 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Would that Luhrmann had included the funeral and the meeting between Nick and Gatsby's elderly, working-class father from the book's final chapter. The Great Gatsby – review 2013-05-18T23:07:04Z

It was the investment of everyday working-class and middle-class African-Americans but also the investment of black politicians, of black power brokers, of black activists. Jim Jones, deadly white savior: The tragic legacy of the Jonestown massacre 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

This includes a fascinating video interview, available online, recorded in 1978, with Elizabeth Dean, a working-class Manchester suffragette involved in active protest. Jeanette Winterson: 100 years after the suffragettes 2013-03-29T15:59:01Z

The impressive architecture of the inner city sheltered immense wealth, while there was desperate poverty in the working-class districts beyond. Salman Rushdie not first novelist to suffer assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read book 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

Some perceived condescension in the article toward Strong’s working-class background, including an anonymous Yale classmate having marveled at his “careerist drive.” Brian Cox Takes Stock of His Eventful Life on Stage and Screen 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

But Bennett shows another face of England at the play's end, when Hilary is sent home, as part of a spy-swap, while a working-class traitor is left permanently and unhappily marooned in Moscow. Alan Bennett: a quiet radical 2012-10-12T09:38:00Z

Her “vitality of spirit” and “the vigor of her language” helped alert him to the rich heritage of his working-class culture, he wrote. Richard H. Hoggart, ‘Lady Chatterley’s’ Savior, Dies at 95 2014-04-23T20:45:56Z

Like many banlieues, it consisted of undistinguished working-class apartment blocks surrounding the city, home mainly to people of North and West African heritage who find themselves labeled immigrant. Dipping Into a French Melting Pot 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

“Newspapers and magazines didn’t want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then,” Mr. Rock said with a sunny working-class lilt. Up Close: Mick Rock, ?70s Photographer, Has New Exhibition 2011-12-14T18:47:59Z

For more than five decades, he has carried the torch for British social realism; that fine tradition of everyday, usually working-class drama that has produced some of the most powerful, important cinema of our times. Beyond Ken Loach: where have the social-realists in cinema gone? 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

A cockney he wasn't, though he played mainly working-class characters throughout his career. Richard Attenborough obituary 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

But his meticulous, indignant dramas of hard times and diminished hopes add up to an epic of working-class life through decades of disappointment and defeat. At the New York Film Festival, a Defense of Human Dignity 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Interviews with pain researchers and social critics – conducted in advance of the election – paint a picture of white working-class life that is riddled with pain, chronic and persistent, physical as well as emotional. The science of white working class pain: Trump’s appeal is rooted in the body as well as the mind 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

But Long Island working-class families like mine believed that a box of Entenmann’s conveyed class. Behind the Entenmann’s Cellophane, a Slice of Long Island Life 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

It was tough-looking when he was a 17-year-old undergraduate, the lone working-class kid in tutorials, wondering why no one ever challenged him in English lit seminars. Peter Mullan: the swot who lost the plot 2011-01-19T21:31:00Z

In the working-class suburbs of Rio and São Paulo, fans would gather on weekends for exuberant all-night dance parties that featured Maia’s or other bands. Pop: Tim Maia, Brazilian Singer, Is in Resurgence 2012-10-20T23:23:03Z

It’s a considered, conscientious character study chronicling the ups and, mostly, downs in the lives of its working-class subjects. ‘American Woman’ Review: A Considered, and Cautious, Working-Class Character Study 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

For Shakespeare, the spectacle of working-class buffoons trying to stage noble tragedy seemed to be inherently ludicrous, but later artists targeted their mockery at the élites themselves, re-centering their stories on figures from the margins. In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

Fragments of everyday life in Jefferson County seep into his Dust Bowl-y vignettes exploring working-class struggles, he says. Forget Seattle. Rural Washington is ready to rock the Grammys 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

She imitates the habits of studied politicians, hitting her cadences and singling out her working-class constituents to score pathos points. Election at 20: assessing the high school satire's brutal politics 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

Citing George Orwell and Barbara Ehrenreich on working-class life, he notes that smoking gives people who are under the heavy thumb of employers not only pleasure but a measure of autonomy. Celebrating Literature’s Slacker Heroes, Idlers and Liers-In 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

Each candidate has struggled to connect with white, working-class voters, in Ohio and elsewhere. Stellar duo target Ohio's working class for Obama 2012-10-18T20:59:13Z

Indeed, at one of Emmeline's rallies, she is not even perturbed when a working-class man introduces himself. Park Lane by Frances Osborne 2012-06-03T17:48:01Z

There really were pigs in Pigtown, herded from stockyards to slaughterhouses in an enclave of working-class and worse-off Irish and German Americans. Around Baltimore’s Pigtown, all things Babe 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

The working-class racialism that disturbs community workers in the north-west is never examined. From the Observer archive, 1 June 1988: the celebration of Street life that goes on and on 2013-06-01T23:05:11Z

Through the early 1970s, the demolitions displaced some 1,800 poor and working-class families, most of them Puerto Rican, turning homes into vacant lots. Essex Crossing Is the Anti-Hudson Yards 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

If you listen closely, you might hear a hint of their working-class Bronx background in Jenny's voice; with Lucy, it's about as subtle as a car horn in heavy traffic. 'Union Square': Polar-opposite sisters struggle to reconnect 2012-08-10T07:16:04Z

The northern suffragettes – working-class young women who made change happen in the places they lived and worked – are a fantastic inspiration for rebellion now. All hail HannaH – a new festival celebrating 'great stuff' in the north 2013-04-23T14:13:59Z

Stan Barstow, the novelist whose work is distinguished by faithful recording of working-class ways, summed it up best when he said: "It never has any smell of evil about it." From the Observer archive, 1 June 1988: the celebration of Street life that goes on and on 2013-06-01T23:05:11Z

“Skylight” takes place in Kyra’s dreary working-class flat, where wealthy restaurateur Tom shows up unannounced one evening. In London, stages are set for pleasure

Yet the show is not blind to fault lines within a community that is closing ranks and shunning some of its own if they are deemed not working-class enough. ‘Coal Country’ Review: Songs and Stories in a Disaster’s Aftermath 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Created by Regina Y. Hicks and Wanda Sykes, “The Upshaws,” which premieres Wednesday, focuses on a Black working-class family in the Midwest trying to get by through tough times and increasingly complicated interpersonal dynamics. ‘The Upshaws’ Is a Throwback Sitcom With Modern Views 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

Mann specializes in working-class criminals, guys who see their work as a job and nothing more, a way to make a living without punching a clock. 9 James Caan Movies to Stream 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

Back then it was a fishing village, with a mix of middle- and working-class residents. The Talk of Montauk 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

Wisdom was a true voice of the people, the diminutive working-class joker, forever being put down by snooty colonels or posh birds who weren't really worthy of him in the first place. Norman Wisdom - a life in clips 2010-10-04T22:55:00Z

"I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. All of those characters kind of grew up to be Olive," McDormand told USA Today. 'Olive Kitteridge' comes to HBO this weekend 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

They’re playful but also confrontational, prodding at the conceptions of working-class immigrants in these communities as menacing. JR’s Street Gallery Comes Indoors 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

She has a matter-of-fact charisma and a ready laugh, and you can see how those qualities would have made it easy for her to sell drugs in the depressed, working-class town of Ottumwa, Iowa. Review: Going Home to Iowa With the Queen of Meth 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Steinman says the space continues to add programs and events, remaining committed to Noah’s initial idea of doing museum-grade shows in a predominantly working-class neighborhood. A show toying with unexpected ideas of color rises at the Underground Museum 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Bess Kalb’s grandmother Bobby was born on a dining room table in Brooklyn; her mother, Rose, a working-class Russian immigrant, “didn’t want to ruin the bed linens.” The Ghost Writer: An Author Imagines a Letter From Her Late Grandmother 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

If you hold the book to a certain light, you’ll see it as an exercise in self-hazing, a product of working-class madness, the female strain. This must-read essay lights a match, aims for the sexist book world: “Let us burn this motherf*cking system to the ground” 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

Some of his brawling, working-class kin are alcoholics, and some are abusers; nearly all are feisty beyond measure. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Had Strong Opinions About Appalachians. Now, Appalachians Return the Favor. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

"In British history," he said, "they nearly always get a working-class boy to do the killing." A week in radio: Is It Worth It?; Meet Myself Coming Back 2012-06-28T19:00:06Z

The first was an expansion of the education system that built university campuses in the heart of the communities where working-class people lived, offering not only traditional liberal arts courses but also vocational training. Who will win my bogan vote? 2013-05-27T01:30:00Z

In her new book, “The Wicked Boy”, the victim is a working-class wife and mother. Boys’ own 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Most of the areas controlled by the rebels are working-class neighbourhoods. The Syrian conflict: a war photographer's story 2012-12-14T10:30:00Z

Christian assured me that his real dad is also a fat, working-class slob. Up the junction 2010-04-03T23:05:00Z

Yet, despite this, C.T.C. manages to produce some of the most adventurous programming in the area, balancing its artistic ambitions and its relationship to the working-class town it calls home. A Little Theatre That Might 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

There actually were some interesting controversies between him and others around writing from the voice of working-class people versus the “talented tenth,” but he’s always expressed the feeling of the man on the street. On Being Seen: An Interview with Claudia Rankine from Ferguson 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Born into a working-class family, a talented draftsman by the time he was a teenager, Dix volunteered for the German Army during World War I and saw the carnage of the Battle of the Somme. Week Ahead: Aug. 22 ? 28 2010-08-19T14:57:00Z

The latest release is full of protest songs and working-class anthems, inspired by the recession in the United States. ArtsBeat: Springsteen Tops Charts in Britain 2012-03-12T16:17:29Z

In the historically working-class Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, just a few minutes northeast of landmarks like Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, a unique literary destination has blossomed. In Philadelphia, a Comic Book Store Dedicated to Diversity 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

His parents were working-class folk who knew their place and counselled their arty son on the perils of getting above himself. Barry Miles: 'I think of the 60s as a supermarket of ideas. We were looking for new ways to live' 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z

Producers said Tuesday that the stage adaptation of the 1983 hit movie about a working-class Pittsburgh girl with dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer hopes to boogie into New York in August 2013. 'Flashdance' to dance on Broadway next summer 2012-09-04T19:17:11Z

The "Hillbilly Elegy" book presents the white, male, working-class story of Appalachia as the definitive one. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z

Factory work provides a diminishing share of working-class jobs: There were 43,000 iron and steelworkers last year, compared with almost 2 million hospital and home health aides. In ‘Behemoth,’ Manufacturing Still Looms Large 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

“Obviously he comes from a solid working-class background in the East End of London,” said Mr. Leigh, with whom Mr. Marsan also made “Vera Drake.” Eddie Marsan Has a Busy Acting Career 2010-08-06T04:13:00Z

Put aside all his acting achievements, and he's still the person who has made the most authentic working-class Cockney movie ever. Gary Oldman: from Sid to Smiley: the rollercoaster story of a true British great 2012-02-09T18:59:00Z

At Loehmann’s you were buying bargains, not conversation, from working-class people, not historians of fashion. Big City: Closing of Loehmann’s Reflects Changes in Shopping 2014-01-24T21:12:30Z

The buildings are mostly weathered and unspectacular, in the manner of a typical, perhaps working-class, neighborhood. ‘Goodnight Moon,’ but Not Just Yet 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

She bemoans “an ideological stance that judges mothers for not being fully available to their children at all times and that scapegoats working-class families in particular.” Are iPhones Bad for Kids? 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Inside an abandoned movie theater on a noisy avenue in a working-class section of Havana, some 70 Cuban children as young as nine pursue their dream of joining the circus. Cuban children train for circus, and a future 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

And whether his audience knew it or not, he made sure that we saw the everyday working-class Black men with whom he grew up as he saw them himself: larger than life. Michael K. Williams Brought His Whole Life to His Characters 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

Andre is 8 when the novel opens, growing up in a working-class town just outside Boston that is not quite the city and not quite the burbs. ‘Team Seven’ is an authentic, affecting story of a young black man’s struggle to survive

Growing up in a working-class household in Northern California, she saw “Richard III” during a trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and was instantly hooked. Jessica Chastain Returns to the Stage With Nothing to Prove 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Post-World War II mass migration brought the up-tempo Rude Boy rhythm from the Caribbean to the United Kingdom, where it was embraced by both working-class mods and skinheads. The ska revival is here, but ska never really went away 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

“I’m male and northern and from a working-class background, so you were not supposed to speak about your feelings,” he says. Christopher Eccleston: ‘I really felt that I was going to die’ 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

In Ms. Doherty’s solos of the past several years, her body has become a conduit for expressions of working-class, Northern Irish masculinity, a subject she approaches with candor and compassion. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Some 10,000 of her prefabricated kitchens were installed in new working-class apartments, becoming the prototype for the built-in kitchen now ubiquitous in the West. On the Bauhaus Trail in Germany 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

They steal to supplement their working-class wages, all while hiding from authorities after kidnapping the girl from her abusive parents. From street kids to war romance, Oscar foreign-film slate keeps it... 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Kennedy’s flair for creating authentic working-class characters — especially Cushla’s mother Gina, who smokes and drinks like it is going out fashion — stems from extended family get-togethers round the kitchen table, she said. Louise Kennedy’s Debut Novel Taps into Her Childhood Amid The Troubles 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Christopher Jones/Rex Features I was born into a good old-fashioned Methodist working-class family. Michael Eavis: My family values 2013-06-07T12:00:01Z

It got its start as a working-class black neighborhood, before being gentrified in the 1940s. If there’s a Trump bump for restaurants, Georgetown is first in line 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

North of Old City and Northern Liberties, Fishtown is a working-class neighborhood that embraces its past but is also now home to all kinds of independent enterprises, including exciting restaurants. Eat and drink your way around Philadelphia's sizzling food scene 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

The hit series about a working-class couple was adapted from the British show Til Death Us Do Part. Emmy winning actress Stapleton dies 2013-06-03T16:55:34Z

With songs like “Pablo Pueblo,” he defined the working-class Latino subject, disillusioned with urban misery after being promised the American dream. 15 Essentials From Johnny Pacheco and Fania Records, the ‘Motown of Salsa’ 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

At 54, he said he never imagined his life to be so, growing up in the 1960s in a working-class neighborhood in Huntington, N.Y., where his mother still lives. Patrick McMullan Snaps but Never Bites 2010-03-24T23:40:00Z

But the director saw an emotional intelligence, and cast Broadbent as a “very gentle, Northern, working-class guy” in “Ecstasy,” at the Hampstead Theater. In ‘The Duke,’ Jim Broadbent Puts an Eccentric at the Center 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

Secondly, I grew up in a working-class area and went to working-class schools with working-class kids and so on. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

The design of the space conjures a working-class, at times impoverished milieu straight out of the 1930s, with lots of attention to detail. Immersive theater appeals to audiences wanting to take part in art 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

She also overlooks the rich history of middle- and working-class cooperative housing in New York City. Against the White Picket Fence 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

The film concerns poets in Southern China who, while enduring arduous, sometimes hazardous conditions in working-class occupations, preserve their spirits with verse. Review: In ‘Iron Moon,’ Poets Who Know What Work Is 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Such a movement, with its unpatronising portrayal of working-class life, was clearly a reaction to the stifling conformity of the preceding period. Michael Billington on working-class theatre 2013-01-25T21:00:03Z

“Undercover Boss” is a working-class fantasy that bursts its own illusions. 2010-02-06T07:37:00Z

He took special pride in the technical skills these working-class gun dealers, loan sharks, bookies, thieves, grifters and mob enforcers brought to their trade. Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 2013-08-20T14:28:20Z

O'Connor was such an  appealing performer -- never more so than when Archie dropped the bluster and spoke from the heart -- that the character became an emblem of working-class grit and World War II-era reslience. Why "All in the Family" still matters 2011-01-12T15:01:00Z

Being from Liverpool was really important but I wasn't working class and the whole Liverpool identity was a working-class identity. Linda Grant 2011-01-17T08:00:01Z

I class myself as a working-class girl and I've never stopped working. Bonnie Tyler 'not part of 1980s' 2013-05-13T18:00:00Z

The great reporter J. Anthony Lukas tells the epic story of the now largely forgotten Boston busing crisis through the eyes of three families: one white gentrifyers, one working-class Irish and one African American. Last-minute holiday shopping list! 2012-12-21T17:57:00Z

A group called Parent Revolution quickly went into action, looking to Compton, Calif., a mostly working-class city known for gang violence, for its test case and going door to door there to get others involved. Movie Review: ‘We the Parents,’ a Documentary by James Takata 2013-09-06T01:12:53Z

The story unfolds in the working-class fictional town of Crosby, Me., and finds Olive kindling a new romance. 18 New Books to Watch For in October 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

The group has performed at Jazz Fest only one other time since Mr. Myles’s murder, and many of the working-class members of the group were scattered around the country after Katrina. Complicated Legacy of a Gospel Singer 2014-04-28T20:45:33Z

Crozier was born in Glasgow, the son of working-class parents, his father a plumber in Stephen & Sons' Govan shipyard. William Crozier obituary 2011-07-15T18:14:26Z

Unfolding with a sincerity that dares you to roll your eyes, this warmhearted documentary by Louise Osmond wallows in its working-class roots like a horse in clover. Review: In ‘Dark Horse,’ a Real-Life Steeplechase Champion Inspires a Town 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

But what the producers and viewers want is what they call “good TV” — in this case, working-class fantasies aimed at men craving televised booster shots of testosterone. Arts & Leisure Preview: Grab a Brew While They Face Death 2011-03-24T16:56:52Z

Born in 1929 and adopted into a working-class family, Stokes became a committed communist; she wanted to relocate her first husband and young son Michael to Cuba in the 1960s. 'Ahead of her time': the woman who recorded the news for 30 years 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

The story tracks the day of a marriage between a woman of high birth and a working-class man as they fend off the advances of a lusty count. Opera returns to open-air desert theater with diverse cast 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

"It was the first integrated and ethnically diverse beauty contest in America," representing working-class women, said Gardner, who was born the year the contest ended. Decades of Miss Subways smiled on NYC straphangers 2012-10-12T14:59:08Z

The 39-year-old was recognized for her turn as a working-class mother lobbying to keep her job in the Dardenne brothers' "Two Days, One Night." Oscar nominations 2015: Surprises were in store 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

At the other end of the social scale, the 20th-century Little Theatre movement – spearheaded by such groups as the Stockport Garrick Society – offered Shakespeare as a step on the ladder to working-class self-improvement. Shakespeare and Amateur Performance by Michael Dobson - review 2011-07-15T21:55:03Z

Born in a working-class family, Rodari briefly taught in a primary school. Famous in Italy, Rodari Reaches U.S. Shores With ‘Telephone Tales’ 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

And in the realm of creative civil disobedience, it is one of the most extraordinary instances of a bunch of young, working-class artists affecting the world. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

The winner of two National Book Awards and a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Levine, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, grew up in Depression-era Detroit, and became known for his working-class subjects. Philip Levine in The New Yorker 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Poor white people and working-class white people don't have an idea of our nation's history. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

The film perks up when sabre-wielding cossacks scythe into peaceful working-class demonstrators, and later, during the first world war, when Russian soldiers on their way to the front rebel against their officers. I've never seen ... Doctor Zhivago 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

At least five feet of pavement separated Patty and the tent, which sits in the Mission District, a Latino/working-class/artists’ enclave transforming into the fastest-gentrifying neighborhood in the country. 10 things everyone should know about what it’s really like to live on the streets 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Sanders has insisted that Democrats have failed to reach these voters, while dismissing the fact that 75 percent of working-class voters of color voted for Clinton, not Trump, last year. Bye bye, Bernie: He’s not fit to captain the Democratic ship if he can’t stop chasing the great white male 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

It's about a working-class housewife who runs a chaotic home, and her husband who is steeling himself to take off with his young secretary, played by an icily beautiful young Syms. Sylvia Syms: 'I'd like a really evil part' 2012-07-19T19:00:04Z

He’d clearly been a country conservative since the Reagan era, promoting individualism, nationalism, Southern and working-class pride, law and order, and the Second Amendment. The Awkward, Enduring Influence of Hank Williams, Jr. 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

It featured a blue-collar family, the Conners, with overweight parents struggling to get by in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois, and was praised as for its realistic portrayal of working-class life. 'Roseanne' returns with monster TV ratings in Trump era 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

It was a “typical working-class” household, she said recently, while on a vacation in New York that included a trip to the 9/11 memorial and the taking of many hotel room selfies. They Fixed Pornography 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the sly, working-class Clodoaldo arrives in the area with a team of bruisers, offering night security to the residents. Neighbouring Sounds – review 2013-03-24T00:06:39Z

His working-class father is no match for him, intellectually. Benefit for National Theater Hosted by Anna Wintour, Draws Celebrities 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

He hopes it will help open up publishing to new voices, especially writers from working-class backgrounds. Douglas Stuart hopes Booker win helps working-class writers 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Only 6% of doctors, for example, are from working-class backgrounds, while the figure among the workforce as a whole is 33%. The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

It is framed by the story of how he, a middle-class man who voted to stay in the European Union, fell out with his mother, a working-class woman who voted to leave. Brexit Is Happening. You May as Well Laugh About It. 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

This dance born in the working-class neighborhoods of Buenos Aires and Montevideo is about intimacy, touch and the closeness of the abrazo, or embrace. Dancing Cheek to Cheek Again: New York’s Tango Scene Rebounds 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Keaton was the youngest of seven children in a working-class family, and they never went to the cinema because it was too expensive to buy tickets for all the kids. Michael Keaton: ‘There was a lot of bad taste in the 90s and I contributed to that’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Braffet has empathy for her working-class characters and brings neglected places to convincing life. Robert Boswell’s ‘Tumbledown,’ and More 2013-08-28T19:05:14Z

In these shows, which center on working-class and middle-class urban women, divorce often constitutes a financial and social injury that a heroine or sidekick weathers with heart and pluck. Stand by Your Man? On TV, as in Life, There Are Alternatives 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

We got a lot of working-class white kids at our gigs who were just the same as us, apart from their skin colour. 'Catalyst bands': What do you mean, you've never heard of them? 2011-07-21T21:01:01Z

After Booth’s death, the working-class widow becomes Turner’s longtime mistress, in one of the film’s few acknowledgments of human tenderness. Mr. Turner at Cannes: Portrait of the Artist as a Boar 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

She visited small, working-class towns, much like Alton, around the country, and found herself gravitating toward the women and children she encountered. A Photographer's Search for the Meaning of Womanhood in White, Blue-Collar America 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

As for his own trajectory, Sitman grew up in a working-class, fundamentalist Baptist family in central Pennsylvania, steeped in “God and guns conservatism,” as he put it in a 2016 essay. Two ‘Leftist Bros’ Dive Into Conservatism to ‘Know Your Enemy’ 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

Carey Mulligan stars as a working-class woman fighting for her rights, whatever it takes, in “Suffragette.” What’s on TV Saturday 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z

As with that novel, this one tells the story of a boy and his alcoholic mother in working-class Glasgow. ‘Young Mungo’ Explores Love and Violence in Emotional Technicolor 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z

In Zurich, the idea has been floated of a “Carmen Downtown,” set in a working-class neighborhood, with local children drafted into the chorus. 2010-02-06T03:26:00Z

In a telling indicator, only 5 percent of working-class Britons owned a refrigerator, and only 12 percent over all. David Kynaston’s ‘Modernity Britain: 1957-1962’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

A: Meaning as a working-class guy who left school very young but had artistic sensibilities, and kind of feeling like there was no avenue for someone like me. With ‘Three Billboards,’ director Martin McDonagh shows his softer side 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

He was last week, among working-class people in Sunderland. TV review: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry 2012-06-12T22:15:01Z

Over the last couple of years, the Parrish Museum has attempted to make inroads with the growing working-class Latino population in Suffolk County, home to its sleek 34,400-square-foot facility, situated on 14 acres. Parrish Art Museum Names New Director 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

His voice, with its mixture of working-class and drama-school accents, remains at a low, friendly purr, and his recollections are casually presented and left with digressions intact. Theater Review | 'A Life in Three Acts': Of Youth, Frocks and Politics: A Not-So-Ordinary Life 2010-03-08T06:24:00Z

In the ’30s, there was an effort by regular working-class people to reclaim the common land as their own. Q&A: Walking ‘That Long Trailing Leg of Britain’ 2013-08-20T21:21:43Z

“They were the last remnant of working-class Jewish culture in the city.” A Rich (Very Rich) History of the Jewish Dairy Restaurant 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

Even more than “The Asphalt Jungle,” “Blue Collar” is a crime movie about human endeavor, recasting heist-film antiheroes as working-class heroes. It?s All About a Dishonest Day?s Work 2010-10-01T04:19:00Z

He had no aptitude for school or sports, and his tough, working-class father regarded him skeptically. Anthony Hopkins Makes It Look Simple. (And Maybe It Should Be.) 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

I took the job partly with the romantic view that a working-class gig would be good for me. Walter Isaacson recalls the summer he spent working and reading on the Mississippi River

Back then, life on the hill was a working-class commotion of cafes, bistros and dance halls. The back streets of Bohemian Montmartre 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

“It was all about working-class people — people like us.” Brian Cox Takes Stock of His Eventful Life on Stage and Screen 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

She misses the pig statuary, the laminated menus and the working-class atmosphere. When your favorite neighborhood restaurant closes, the grief is real 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Lewis, a working-class family man with his feet on the ground and the patience of a saint. Colin Dexter, Whose Creations Included Inspector Morse, Dies at 86 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

She was, let's not forget, also a wartime leader … She was an amazing person – a woman from a working-class background who took on the toffs. Margaret Thatcher funeral: quotes of the day 2013-04-17T10:35:03Z

In June, a home in Harlem sold for a record $4 million, symbolizing the demand for real estate in the working-class neighborhood. Christmas musical 'Black Nativity' hits a new note on big screen 2013-11-26T11:10:20Z

“Having worked all my life, created a family, discovered a home, I feel as secure as a working-class man ever feels,” he writes. Review | Life lessons from a mole — and a man who made a living catching them 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

It was an easy caricature, a readily reproducible expression of working-class angst. Anarchy in the Met 2013-04-25T11:55:06Z

So I applied and pitched Dolly as an exemplar of an overlooked, under-articulated version of working-class feminism. Dolly Parton and the Women Who Love Her 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

“Clothing is an indulgent conversation in some ways,” Ms. Hugh said, because the working-class Koreans were not discussing whether putting on a suit defines them as a Westerner. One Garment’s Journey Through History 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

The salesman sized him up “as a regular working-class Joe,” as Mr. Cameron put it, who was entering unfamiliar territory, and set out to teach him the rituals of fine dressing. Loren Cameron, 63, Dies; His Camera Brought Transgender Men to Light 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

You also saw celebrities dancing alongside teenagers from working-class neighborhoods, bankers alongside students, he said, and no one cared. In 1988, Acid House Swept Britain. These Fliers Tell the Story. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

He's a working-class heterosexual who just happens to like wearing pretty frocks. Philippa Perry: Couch fiction 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z

When people with working-class accents begin to speak in a more "posh" way, it is often seen as inauthentic and insincere. Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing a working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

It was surprising and not a little unsettling coming from a quiet, bespectacled student from a working-class, Christian background. Tsang Kin-wah Channels His Outrage in a New Show 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Still the hawkish leader of alt-right mouthpiece Breitbart, Bannon goes from town to town as he spouts the same rhetoric about Christian values and working-class frustrations that Trump exploited without an iota of subtlety. "The Brink" review: Steve Bannon finally looks like a loser — Sundance 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

This lesson in working-class Catholic masculinity was achieved through a series of viciously petty acts of cruelty, such as the burning of a favourite teddy bear, that continue to haunt Burnside's dreams decades later. John Burnside: a life in writing 2011-08-26T21:54:01Z

“Closed” in that female customers were not admitted, which opened the door for a new kind of non-domestic, urban job opportunity for unmarried working-class women. On paying for it: Ten cents a dance (adjusted for inflation) 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

The town’s been extensively covered before, but the series, in a little more than thirty minutes, supplies a deft primer on a diverse, mostly black working-class community whose struggles touch on issues of national interest. “Braddock, PA,” a Brisk, Remedial Documentary of a Rust Belt Town 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

The protagonist is an Italian immigrant who works as a longshoreman, a tragic hero who is also a working-class Everyman. Arthur Miller’s Screenplay ‘The Hook’ Finds a Home Onstage in England 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

To execute her vision, Henderson evicted the residents, a community of working-class African Americans. Is it Meridian Hill Park or Malcolm X Park? Your answer is meaningful. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Having grown up in an abusive working-class family, then reinvented himself as a man of means decades later, he's struggled with his identity for years. "Mad Men" recap: Who is Don Draper? 2010-07-26T06:02:00Z

“I wanted to celebrate the unlikely ascent of four working-class boys,” she added. ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Celebration Kicks Off in Liverpool, With a Little Help From International Artists 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

It was a cocksure swagger of pouting androgyny that appealed to pubescent working-class youth across Britain – a Britain still dominated by postwar austerity and weed-filled bomb sites. Gary Kemp: My teen crush on David Bowie 2010-06-28T20:45:00Z

On the face of it, Nelson is a vividly drawn character, a strutting working-class wide boy with an absent benefit-scrounger dad, a pregnant 15-year-old sister and a sideline in mobile phone thievery. Lee Nelson's Well Good Tour ? review 2010-10-18T14:15:00Z

It is being working-class that is the problem. Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing a working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

SANDRICH: Bill had an innate sweetness and a nice working-class feel. ‘While You Were Sleeping’ turns 25: An oral history of the Sandra Bullock rom-com favorite 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

There is a little known illness from the history of psychology called traveler’s fugue, an affliction that struck thousands of Europeans—typically working-class people—in the late 19th century. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z

Of course there are still millions of working-class Americans who actually make or build or repair things. "The Company Men": Kevin Costner as working-class Jesus 2011-01-18T23:30:00Z

“I think this is the interesting thing around class — Abby is so decidedly aware of being from a working-class background from New Jersey,” he said. Revealing the Labor of Dance Through Constant Motion 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

As the name implies, this 19th-century working-class quarter is isolated from the bustling city like an island. | Industrial Revolution 2014-04-03T17:30:23Z

White working-class farmers had always opposed tax increases in Alabama, but the desegregation of schools left white Alabamans less committed than ever to funding public schools. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

And I’m from a working-class family in Yorkshire, where a lot of people I was in school with went into the army,” Tiffany notes. ‘Black Watch,’ hailed tale of war, coming to Seattle’s Paramount 2013-04-17T19:09:22Z

This compact, riveting novel, about a 17-year-old working-class girl forced by her parents to join a re-enactment of Iron Age Britain, asks us to question our complicity in violence, particularly against women. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

But they dodge his calls, unwilling to alienate their white working-class supporters. Down and dirty in city hall 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

No wonder first-generation, working-class and foreign students are so often drawn to technology and business majors, which appear to provide a more direct line between credentials earned and career opportunities secured. Don’t Panic, Liberal Arts Majors. The Tech World Wants You. 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

Yet what makes this a fine play is that Lamont Stewart neither sentimentalises Maggie nor treats working-class life as unrelievedly grim. Men Should Weep - review 2010-10-26T23:25:00Z

The trades foretold this during pilot season when there were four such pilots in contention, and industry insiders connected this trend to the rise of Donald Trump and the quest to appeal to working-class voters. Fall TV: The military look is in this season 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

What prevents Hughes’s characters from being mere archetypes of working-class black folks, or of the Great Migration, is their ability to change and respond to one another. How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Burns, 56, grew up in a working-class family in Ardoyne, a mainly Roman Catholic district of Belfast. The New Booker Prize Winner Who May Never Write Again 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

"Murder in the First," he said, is interested in the collision of new and old, tech billionaires and working-class cops, gentrifiers and those pulled under by their wake. Steven Bochco returns to the police beat with 'Murder in the First' 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

I come from a working-class background, and none of my family was educated, so in no way have I ever had an elite taste in cinema — ever. From "Black Panther" to "RRR," the new "Story of Film" honors innovation, influence of global cinema 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

But he fears that his party is abandoning its working-class roots, and that blue-collar Democrats are a vanishing breed. ‘Mitch, Please!’ Tours Kentucky and Roasts a Senator 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

More importantly, it offers one of the most incisive insights into American working-class family life seen on any comedy program since “Roseanne.” A Netflix show about Pennsylvania — boxing, hoagies and DeVito not included 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

This includes the possibility of new “King of the Hill” episodes, but he said that he would want to alter his working-class Texans if Fox agreed to produce more episodes. HBO wants more seasons of "Silicon Valley," but Mike Judge might be ready to end it 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

To white working-class voters, it sounds like the opposite. Promises, promises 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Or to have two working-class parents holding down jobs and struggling to afford day care for their kids? Lean in? Here’s why the glass ceiling still exists 2013-09-15T10:59:00Z

Al'Sadr is a personality who is key not just for Iraq but for popular, working-class conservative Islamism and for Shia activism more broadly in the Muslim world. Jason Burke: the key books on Muslim extremism 2012-11-07T19:08:19Z

“Also, working-class parents probably raised that kid on their own.” The Eternal Struggle of the Empty Nester 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

If he’s a working-class white Anglo, he’s like the only one in New York City! Norman Lear sits down with Salon: “Trump is the middle finger of the American right hand” 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Photograph: BBC Church's story was always going to be tabloid gold – the working-class Welsh girl who sang like an angel and would be our own Maria Callas. Charlotte Church: my private life 2012-10-05T21:59:00Z

This attachment to popular culture, along with his status as an Arsenal fan and willingness to embrace bad language in his librettos, soon saw Turnage cast as a working-class wunderkind. Mark-Anthony Turnage: A life in music 2011-01-22T07:59:00Z

But because of the de-glamorizing cinematography, she also looks plausibly like a working-class Ohio kid, not a displaced showbiz gal from the Disney Channel. The J.J. Abrams Interview: Inside Super 8 2011-06-06T10:25:00Z

Though upscale malls in wealthy communities continue to do well, Mr. Bell isn’t interested in those; he visits dead malls, and among the deadest are ones in working-class and rural communities. An Ode to Shopping Malls 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

She grew up in a working-class family in Medfield, a small town in Massachusetts, where her father worked as a mechanic and repairman and her mother made a living as a seamstress. Lisa Halliday’s Debut Novel Is Drawing Comparisons to Philip Roth. Though Not for the Reasons You Might Think. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Gilbert said the move ultimately made sense narratively, reinforcing Darlene’s often frustrated desires to transcend her family and her working-class roots. Sara Gilbert Balances Her Lives on ‘The Conners’ and ‘The Talk’ 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

Country remains American music’s bastion of cultural conservatism, with a fan base that sits well to the right of the wider pop audience, and songs that strenuously uphold traditional white working-class images of masculinity. Out and Riding High in Nashville 2013-05-24T12:00:31Z

And in showing the potential dispossession of a working-class family, Mr. Nichols, without banging a topical drum, points toward a social catastrophe that is all too real. | 'Take Shelter': ?Take Shelter,? With Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain 2011-09-29T22:13:08Z

Jack, in particular, has spotted that the world of working-class conviviality at which he excels as a 28-year-old will be swept away by television, not to mention the Beatles. A Love Triangle and a Variety Show in Seaside England 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

The building is tucked away on a dead-end cobblestone street in what was once a working-class area. | Is Coffee in Paris Improving? 2011-01-07T15:33:24Z

He had a working-class background that belied his elegant screen persona, something he apparently wrestled with. Review: In ‘Becoming Cary Grant,’ the Turmoil Beneath the Suave 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

The violence quickly spread to nearby areas in the greater Paris region as news of the killing reignited decades-long grievances over racial discrimination in working-class areas. Traveling to France? What You Need to Know About the Protests. 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

The son of working-class immigrants to New York from Trinidad, he was considered “slow” as a child. Review: As Goes Music, So Goes the Universe 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Personally, I enjoyed reading others’ experiences in “Torn,” because it allowed me, a working-class woman, to see that more privileged women struggle too.  Motherlode: A Mother's Fear of Losing Everything 2011-06-22T15:59:09Z

Working with only pre-existing footage, the director, George Hencken, constructs an unabashedly promotional tale of working-class aspiration and worldwide acclaim. Review: ‘Soul Boys of the Western World’ Revisits Spandau Ballet 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

For Liz Moore, author of the extraordinary new crime novel, “Long Bright River,” it’s the opioid epidemic that ravages the once cohesive world of Kensington, a historically working-class neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia. Review | ‘Long Bright River’ is that wonderful thriller that subverts your expectations till the very last page 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Desolation and rage, as rendered by a squat, bald 53-year-old working-class American parading his inadequacies across the stage. Eddie Pepitone's Bloodbath – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-16T14:22:58Z

The schemes were public-private partnerships in cities and conurbations from Birmingham northwards, that involved the demolition and, in theory, replacement of housing in working-class areas. Anger surrounds demise of 1970s housing estate 2011-02-07T20:33:13Z

She does this whether exploring the worlds of undocumented immigrants or working-class New Jerseyans holding on by a thread. ‘Cost of Living’ Review: Worth Its Weight in Gold 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

She grew up in Saltcoats, a west Scottish working-class seaside town. A life in books: Janice Galloway 2011-08-05T21:55:05Z

Unfinished when Büchner died in 1837 at 23, the fragmentary portrait of a mind in free fall is regarded as one of the first tragedies to put a working-class character center stage. Ripping Up the Rule Book in ‘An Octoroon,’ and Making a Patchwork of ‘Woyzeck’ 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Often, when we look at South Asian immigration in America, there is a predominant class which is very affluent and educated whereas in the UK, the majority of the immigration was more blue-collar and working-class. Ravi Kapoor on his comedy "Four Samosas": "I always wanted to make a lo-fi heist movie" 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

In a clever move, researchers looked at parts of the country with a boom in fracking, bringing new jobs in the oil and gas industries and an uptick in wages for working-class men. New study: Women don’t want to get married just because men make more money 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

"What they are worried about is that, in an election year, the possibility that there's actually working-class resistance in the United States and globally and what that would look like in Obama's home city." Occupy protesters set sights on Chicago 2012-03-19T05:00:00Z

Cledus and Bandit are southern working-class white men in revolt against, to put it bluntly, state power and capitalist greed. Burt Reynolds: A Star With the Pedal to the Metal 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

People are furiously arguing about what played a key role in this election — whether it was white working-class despair, a racist backlash or terror about the pace of cultural change. Richard Rorty’s 1998 Book Suggested Election 2016 Was Coming 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

He began life as Archie Leach in working-class Bristol, England, where his father committed his mother to a mental institution when Archie was 11, and he grew up assuming she was dead. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Orange Is the New Black’ and ‘Becoming Cary Grant’ 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

“It doesn’t get more British than a northern, working-class town,” he says. Alexander Skarsgård: ‘I still wake up shivering in the foetal position’ 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

We lived in a working-class neighborhood of cement-block houses occupied by big families — up to thirty people. Born in Mexico, the chef Eddie Hernandez now calls Atlanta home, where he breaks every cooking rule 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

“Cry It Out,” explores the friendship between two newly minted moms as they struggle through a frigid winter in a working-class town. Playwright Molly Smith Metzler's 'Cry It Out' takes a hard look at motherhood

Art featuring nature tends to fall into familiar categories: for instance, landscapes or romantic depictions of working-class people. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

And, although Flushing is tonier and more developed than it was in Kang’s time, it remains the dense, polyglot domain of new, poor, and working-class Asian immigrants trying to find their place. The Search for a Missing Brother on the Casino-Bus Circuit in Queens 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

But a handful of likely Oscar contenders have built intriguing design worlds by burrowing into working-class realities, particularly the blue-collar struggles of building and sustaining a life in an ever-changing America. When Production Design Plays a Supporting Role 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

And the emotional core is still the camaraderie that springs up between the striving, working-class characters. ‘Oliver!’ Returns, With Darker Twists Intact 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

The movie takes you inside the dreamy collective mentality of bored, mildly rebellious girls who look with horror at the lives of their mostly working-class parents. Movie Review: ‘17 Girls,’ Directed by Delphine and Muriel Coulin 2012-09-21T00:26:02Z

Crucially, the myth of the model minority obscures the struggles of working-class Asian Americans holding menial jobs who also face discrimination on socio-economic grounds. Solidarity with Black Lives Matter: Asian Americans speaking out against police brutality 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

The battleground consists of who the novel can be about, with a reluctance in a certain readership to accept that profundity can be found in working-class as well as middle-class experience. Waterline by Ross Raisin ? review 2011-07-13T09:05:02Z

One of about 10 working-class boys enrolled there, he found himself in a minority that hadn't been to prep school and couldn't already decline Latin. Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood 2012-12-15T19:08:25Z

There’s a merry, working-class shrug of defiance about those last remarks. Tana French’s ‘The Secret Place’: The Dublin Murder Squad takes on the Mean Girls

Van Weyden is the novel’s hero but Rossen also built up parts for two working-class characters who eventually fall for each other. ‘The Sea Wolf’ and ‘Titanic’: Fascism on the High Seas 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

His Communist convictions motivate him to actually seek out working-class Black people. Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

His Turner is a somewhat simian, heavyset working-class man in later life who has a deep attachment to his father, relates awkwardly to women and, despite his deep intellect, often communicates by grunting. Mike Leigh brings Turner's stormy seas to sunny Cannes 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The result was a poetic stream of consciousness about masculinity, ambivalent love and the failures of France to help a man trapped and physically ruined by his working-class life. Édouard Louis Would Like to Talk About Theater Now 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Those episodes that Jimmy McGovern, one of the greatest TV scriptwriters ever to work in British telly, wrote in the late 80s set a new template for working-class TV. Do TV's 'scripted reality' shows fuel regional prejudice? 2011-07-16T23:07:08Z

Mullan plays Joseph, an embittered working-class man who desperately wants to flee from himself but doesn't know how. Tyrannosaur: a debut with claws 2011-01-24T17:00:46Z

“Oil” Billy and Cody Lefever dream of a new life beyond their working-class roots and move to “The Bakken” in North Dakota, booming after the biggest oil discovery in American history. Watch Trailers for ABC's New Dramas and Comedies 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

To the left, it was a tale of working-class lives destroyed by capitalism; to the right, it was a movie about a country waiting to be Made Great Again. Under fire: how cinema's new breed of cowboys are taking aim at the old west 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hutchings has said he hoped the band would capture some of the “restless energy” of Johannesburg, a metropolitan but deeply working-class city, where much of the arts activity takes place underground. Shabaka and the Ancestors Are Making Their Own Jazz History 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

LaPLACE, La. — The New York artist Dread Scott was standing in a tiny traffic island in this working-class suburb west of New Orleans on a recent afternoon near the EZ Stop convenience store. An Artist’s March to Freedom 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Kynaston deprecates the idealisation of traditional working-class communities by sociologists and intellectuals. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z

Our analyses found that smoking is lower in creative-class cities and metros and higher in working-class locations. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z

But Vance writes as a member of the community, making him a translator between the big-city talking heads and Trump’s rural working-class base. Everyone is reading books trying to explain Trump voters 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

And by the 1980s, the Bastille was a working-class area; this new opera house was conceived with a broadened public in mind. Does Paris Still Have the Ugliest Opera House in Europe? 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

But Iowa as a whole is essentially white, working-class and right-of-center — though, true to its middling status, ranks 24th among America’s 50 states when it comes to self-identified conservatives. Iowa’s Heartland Beyond the Campaign Trail 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

He was found to be impotent on his wedding night, and his wife often made him stay, as punishment, in the basement of the family’s house in a working-class section of Rome. An Operatic Italian Classic Gets a Fresh Translation 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

The production is also designed by Mr. Doyle to reflect visually Brecht’s working-class sympathies. Review: Raúl Esparza Becomes a Very Familiar Fascist in ‘Arturo Ui’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

In Mr. Rorty’s view, no one within academia was thinking creatively about how to relieve white working-class anxiety. Richard Rorty’s 1998 Book Suggested Election 2016 Was Coming 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

It remains a timeless portrayal of working-class aspiration, an agonising reflection of both a northern iconoclast's internal conflict and the social divisions that, a quarter of a century on, appear only to have hardened. Tony Harrison's poem V is a timeless portrayal of working-class aspiration 2013-02-18T08:00:31Z

George was especially popular for his role as tough working-class inspector Horst Schimanski from the country's industrial Ruhr Valley region, which he played 48 times in a time period of 32 years. German actor Goetz George dies at age 77 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

You and the cast and crew seemed to feed off the generosity of the folks in this working-class town.The people of Weirton were spectacular. The J.J. Abrams Interview: Inside Super 8 2011-06-06T10:25:00Z

Born to a mail carrier and a homemaker in this largely working-class town, he says his love of cooking came from his grandmother, in whose kitchen he learned the basics during the summers. Moose, Anyone? In Newfoundland, Food Both Rustic and Sophisticated 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

It’s no different if it’s in an upper-class borough in London where I used to live or in a working-class suburb of Glasgow. A letter to my late husband, who was an alcoholic 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

“Cuz we actually want to, need to hear that the monster’s waitin’ just round the corner,” she explains in her working-class Lincolnshire accent. Review: Death Is a Two-Way Door in ‘The Thin Place’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

And in Argentina, Oscar Bony caused a scandal when he hired a working-class family to pose in a gallery, then paid them twice the pittance the father made on his regular job. Review: ‘Transmissions’ at MoMA Explores an Era When Art Upended Tradition 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Matt: The only things that are consistently interesting about "Entourage" are the portrait of a bunch of working-class guys importing their values into a wealthy environment, and almost any of the scenes involving Ari. "Entourage" recap: 8x2 2011-08-01T06:01:00Z

Raised by a strong, single mother in working-class Newark after their father went to jail, the former Duke University and New York University law students weren’t at a loss for words. WATCH: The Lucas Brothers on weed, Jesus and the “War on Drugs” 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Family circumstances, he said, veered between working-class and outright poor. Art That Finds Clarity in South Africa’s Fraught Terrain 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

A man named Graham Woods was available on my designated date to show me around Hackney, a working-class area with little presence in guidebooks. Journeys: An Olympic Preview in London?s East End 2012-01-27T17:44:53Z

Set largely in working-class Pennsylvania, in towns forgotten by time, her uneventful dramas seem to be composed of what might be called “found conversation,” of words taken directly from life, with only minor cosmetic alteration. Review: ‘Social Security,’ the Heroic Poetry of Solitude 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

The age was cynical, but White’s book is not: He also pays attention to the striving middle- and working-class Americans of neighborhoods, churches and trade unions, who in mostly unsung ways expanded the public good. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Many of the stores — Peoples Drug, a Chinese carryout, a wig shop and a record store — are gone from the once predominantly working-class African American neighborhood. 32 years after a horrific murder, one man wants justice. Another just wants an ending. 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

He was also, “a working-class bloke,” Mr. Cox said, and one whose renegade instinct manifested itself early on, when he stitched an antiroyalist imprecation into a suit sewn for the Prince of Wales. 2010-02-11T21:45:00Z

“Pride,” unlike “The Full Monty,” isn’t a comedy, but laughs are harvested from the collision of macho working-class miners in South Wales and young Londoners, mostly male, who gather at a gay bookstore. ‘Pride’ Shows the Alliance of a Gay Group and Mineworkers 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

The bungalow block was twentieth-century Chicago’s quintessential landscape of middle-class solidity and working-class confidence in upward mobility, but today it’s harder to enter or stay in the middle class. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

You see it much more in the African American community, where the gender disparity in college education is more extreme – you certainly see more educated women married to working-class guys.” The dating gap: why the odds are stacked against female graduates 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

I grew up in a working-class environment and would sometimes go to black clubs and be approached by white women who said, “I don’t date white men, I just date black men.” Me and my penis: 100 men reveal all 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

The National Guard, a citizen militia grown increasingly militant during the war, moved a large number of cannons into the working-class strongholds of Montmartre and Belleville. 'Massacre' a sobering chronicle of the Paris Commune 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

My point is that Mr. Bublé knows who he is, a fisherman’s son from a close-knit working-class family in British Columbia. Music Review | Michael Bubl?: Showing Emotional Depth at Madison Square Garden 2010-03-21T21:52:00Z

Though we shared Spanish words and working-class roots, André and I had no clue how our family stories echoed the ebb and tide of empires, ancient and modern. A Memoir of Filipino American Family Life in the Wake of Colonialism 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

Embassy staffer; Kimberly Gilbert, portraying a Norwegian housekeeper who cooks for the negotiators, evokes the refreshing amiability of a working-class woman plopped down in extraordinarily trying circumstances. Review | ‘Oslo’ is an incisive, and dispiriting, look at a stunning pact between Israel and the PLO 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

My mum was an NHS receptionist, and I was at a working-class comprehensive, but my dad was in the movie business. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre 2011-01-31T00:05:02Z

“The Empathy Diaries,” which Penguin Press is publishing on March 2, traces Turkle’s progression from a working-class Brooklyn childhood to tenured professor at M.I.T. A Critic of Technology Turns Her Gaze Inward 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

“My audience in the beginning was working-class, blue collar, redneck,” he explained, “And now I have an NPR audience.” Steve Earle’s outlaw heart 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

So these are real, attainable budgets that real, working-class people would be able to afford. How Jake Smollett turned his passions for food and design into a career 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

Much is made in the initial episode of Mike and Molly’s occupations, and CBS’s Web site makes a point of telling us that Mike and Molly are “a working-class couple.” Television Review: A Sitcom With More Than Empty Calories 2010-09-19T22:35:00Z

Swan said the New Jersey-born working-class hero's musical railings against inequality echoed his own public battle against Australian billionaire mining tycoons who oppose his tax reforms. The Boss plays a note of caution on economic sway 2013-03-15T02:43:08Z

The location: A working-class Pittsburgh home, but most memorably in its bare-bones backyard. 6 Movies That Take Place in a Single Location (Mostly) 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

If Sicilia is a poisoned Camelot, Bohemia becomes a working-class Blackpool in wakes week, complete with Morris dancers and tented booths. The Winter's Tale – review 2013-01-31T13:14:04Z

Who, then, are “the people”? Are they the older working-class African-Americans who put Biden over the top in the Democratic primaries? The Fight Over the Future of the Democratic Party 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

Critics argue that, for all its surface reality, issues of concern to real working-class northerners are only touched upon. From the Observer archive, 1 June 1988: the celebration of Street life that goes on and on 2013-06-01T23:05:11Z

I was one of seven, from a very working-class family. 'I forgot who I was': how Big Brother changed my life 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

It’s about the University of Washington’s crew team: “Nine working-class boys from the American West who at the 1936 Olympics showed the world what true grit really meant.” Books of The Times: Beach Reads From Stephen King, Kevin Kwan, Carl Hiaasen and More 2013-06-06T21:14:31Z

But Branagh comes from a working-class Northern Irish background, I say. Tony Slattery: ‘I had a very happy time until I went slightly barmy’ 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

We also get a sense that while middle- and working-class whites tend to identify more with rich whites than with poor blacks, the identification isn't total. "Sins and Secrets": The perfect antidote to the sleazy crime show 2011-02-17T15:18:00Z

Just try to be a bit less white and a bit more working-class. Pass notes No 2,834: The sitcom 2010-08-22T19:00:00Z

He stayed on as the economy tanked, and as a poor and working-class neighborhood gentrified. Art Review: A Beijing Bohemian in the East Village 2011-07-28T23:14:41Z

But, while Russell's point about the hazards faced by working-class women bent on self-improvement remains true, I find Rita's rise and Frank's subsequent fall less moving than they might be. Educating Rita 2010-08-03T21:30:00Z

Is white working-class racism merely the result of evil politicians hoodwinking hapless white people? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Leaving Home Canadian playwright David French’s classic drama about a working-class family in 1950s Toronto. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 1-8: 'Seussical the Musical' and more 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

He lived in a working-class neighborhood, but his parents, both teachers, sent him to a private school. Film: Indie Filmmaker?s Seat-of-the-Pants Solutions 2011-02-12T06:33:51Z

Yet it seems to me that the again and again repetition of these scenes of working-class life is more than a surface show. LS Lowry's rage against the machine 2013-06-13T06:00:04Z

I always have a working-class chip on my shoulder about those people.” Jemaine Clement: Australians have a great attitude to being made fun of 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

As Mara, the 15-year-old Lila Houel, who came to the production with limited stage experience, is coarsely candid in these early scenes, with turns of phrase that emphasize the character’s working-class background. ‘Daddy’ Review: Deeper Into the Internet’s Darkest Corners 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

Jarmusch acknowledged even he struggles to describe the film's combination of working-class and creative life, inspired partly by the Paterson poet and doctor William Carlos Williams. Jim Jarmusch has debuted his reliably idiosyncratic bus driver-poet drama "Paterson" at the Cannes Film Festival, which enthusiastically responded to the film's gentle rhythms 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Can it be said of the mythologies and ancient histories in Mantegna, or of Seurat's working-class loafers beside the Seine on an imaginary Sunday in the late 19th century? Bridget Riley: paintings and related works 2010-11-22T21:31:00Z

A serious, slight man with close-cropped dark hair, Hayflick was a product of working-class Philadelphia and hungry to make his name. Germ warfare: the battle for the key to modern vaccines 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Tonight, he begins with a study of working-class taste in Sunderland. TV highlights 05/06/2012 2012-06-04T19:00:01Z

Yet he was also a child of the working-class Bronx who valued literary prestige less than the bottom line. Stephen Rubin, ‘Quintessential Hitmaker’ of the Book World, Dies at 81 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z

Historically, Carmen’s life and death were made palatable through musical and plot devices that conveyed her “otherness” as a working-class Roma woman. Seattle Opera’s ‘Carmen’ is tremendous fun until it’s horrifying — as it should be 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

A Manxman, of working-class background, he attended a redbrick university, Liverpool, when it was less fashionable to do so than today. Frank Kermode: a tribute by John Sutherland 2010-08-20T23:22:00Z

In Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory, released in August, we see a working-class family move into a catacomb that has been converted into a dwelling. Parasite, Us and the movies' subterranean blues 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

Marshall Mathers, the man who brought white working-class angst to the top of the charts, was opening a restaurant. One Night at Mom’s Spaghetti 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

The Dardenne brothers, steadfast in their commitment to depicting working-class life in the industrial towns of French-speaking Belgium, have become fixtures of the Cannes awards ceremonies. 8 Cannes Film Festival Prizewinners We Love (and 3 We Don’t) 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

Situated in the working-class Oregon Hill neighborhood, this jewel box of a restaurant boasts a delightfully eccentric menu. What’s new (and old) in Richmond, Virginia’s trendy capital 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

All of the plays are set in Pittsburgh’s working-class African American community, and each is set in a different decade of the 20th century. Backstage: Michele Shay takes up familiar ‘Seven Guitars’

Unacknowledged “poshness tests” at elite British companies are thwarting the career prospects of talented working-class applicants and reinforcing social division, according to a government study. 'Poshness tests' block working-class applicants at top companies 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

In the nineteen-sixties, after Woody Guthrie got sick, Bob Dylan seemed primed to become the next working-class champion, the one shoved forward to represent the rest of us. Springsteen’s Most Anxious Album 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

As a gay black man from a working-class Alabama family he has spent his life "swimming against the gradient" and the labor of that, on top of his grueling academic work, has worn him down. 7 must-read novels to transport you in February 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

The city’s historic center, which fans out around twin lawns planted with towering elms, maintains an old New England character, with neo-Gothic towers, well-aged dive bars and working-class neighborhoods of faded but elegant Victorian houses. 36 Hours in New Haven, Conn. 2012-10-27T00:00:22Z

They are dim, but mostly not dumb, countering what we have come to expect from portrayals of the middle- or working-class people of Boston. 'The McCarthys' do Boston Irish reasonably proud, and funny 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Yet the working-class neighborhood has two real attractions: Piers Park’s brilliant skyline views across the harbor, and a cluster of cheap Latin American restaurants near the T stop at Maverick Square. Frugal Traveler Blog: A $100 Weekend in Boston 2013-04-14T02:07:45Z

The working-class dad, Lorenzo, is dogged and noble as sung and acted by the steady Richard H. Blake, one of several cast members from the Broadway production. Review | The musical ‘A Bronx Tale’ sings of growing up on mean streets 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

The play, Bragg's first foray into the theater, is about three generations of the white, working-class Clegg family and their anxieties about how their town is becoming more racially and culturally diverse. Billy Bragg sings about English identity in play 2010-04-26T18:56:00Z

But what holds it is the working-class poetry of Derek Ahonen’s script, with the “broken down dreams” and a “gutter full of empty stomachs” of a hard-boiled era of soulful stiffs and dreamers going nowhere. Theater Review | 'Happy in the Poorhouse': At Theater 80, the Amoralists Look to Palookaville 2010-03-15T21:58:00Z

It explores the impact this has had on local working-class communities, many of whom have been marginalised even more by the Olympic juggernaut of commerce and supposed regeneration. The DIY photobook phenomenon 2012-07-25T16:35:01Z

Unlike Darwin the gentleman, Wallace was from a working-class family and had toiled at various other jobs before deciding to earn a living as a collector. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z

It's a hypnotic, starkly beautiful, often disturbing drama that puts a working-class Mexican family in the cross hairs of its country's drug war. Stunning, disturbing 'Heli' challenges comfort zones 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. James, whose television series “The King of Queens” established his good-hearted, working-class guy with a mildly smart-mouth persona, was possibly a movie star. Actors Flock to Netflix to Satisfy Their Most Loyal Fans 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

People with working-class accents are frequently criticized and encouraged to speak "properly." Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing a working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

For me, it's a duty to stand in the gap and advocate as an artist for the displaced, working-class people. Braddock's LaToya Ruby Frazier takes on Levi's and 'ruin porn' chic 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

As a rebel myself, I think a lot about the few ways that working-class people have left to express their outrage. I slept with the enemy: Here’s what an unlikely romance taught me about racism, Donald Trump, and our cultural obsession with male rebellion 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

The West End was a quintessential working-class immigrant neighborhood of narrow streets, pushcarts and three-story tenements. Where Leonard Nimoy Learned His Craft--And What We Can Learn, Too 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

I've come to the conclusion we need to strengthen the union movement, because they speak for working-class people. New doc "9to5" spotlights the women who rose up against sexism and harassment at work in the 1970s 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

Her finished image of the running Virgin was part of a larger triptych that celebrates working-class Chicanas of different ages and body types — and the idea of matriarchy itself. Yolanda López, Artist Who Celebrated Working-Class Women, Dies at 78 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z

It’s not every day that a working-class girl from Chicago meets the daughter of Motown royalty — unless perhaps one of them becomes an extremely popular former first lady and the other an award-winning TV star. Michelle Obama and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Power of Women’s Stories 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Where Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray was a snob, Ruskin wanted to improve working-class lives. Did the aesthetic rebels get Ruskin wrong? 2011-03-29T16:14:06Z

Often it claims working-class people as its victims, examples of whom the girls occasionally spot in the nearby town of Stevenage. A School Where the Student Body Is Obsessed With Student Bodies 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

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