Kelley was born in Detroit on Oct. 27, 1954, to what he described as a working-class Catholic family which influenced his art. ❋ Anthony Papa (2012)
But the phrase 'working-class' is the phrase I grew up with - and so much of the working-class thing is about thinking you're not allowed to do stuff. ❋ Decca Aitkenhead (2011)
Pauline's relationship with her mother had become strained by the time she was 11, but she felt more affinity with her father, Arthur, a mechanic, whom she describes as "working-class and proud". ❋ Unknown (2011)
The British Empire Medal BEM, described as the working-class gong, is to be revived as David Cameron reverses one of John Major's signature reforms that was designed to create a classless society. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I’m what you’d call an infidel and my husband called working-class. ❋ Chris Cleave (2005)
He found “a substantial ground of truth in the indictment” of working-class Americans as “improvident and apparently incompetent to take care of the pecuniary details of their own life.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
Opposition to shopping grew especially severe during World War I, when bourgeois disgust over the new working-class culture took the form of well-organized campaigns against drinking, prostitution, and venereal disease, and in the moral condemnation of working-class spending habits. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
The rise of country music as a leading working-class cultural form amply demonstrated this commitment to the flag. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National War Labor Board reported in 1918 that on average, “wage earners and the low or medium salaried families” had more than doubled the percentage of their spending on items other than food, shelter, and clothing since 1875, government policymakers and intellectuals set out to establish a “minimum comfort” budget for working-class families that would be frugal and thus patriotic. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
Even during the Vietnam War, hostility toward the antiwar movement was most intense in white working-class quarters. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
Having originated in black and Italian, gay working-class nightclubs, by the middle of the decade, disco dominated the airwaves, the Billboard music charts, and the dance floors. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
Indeed, several magazines and newspapers specifically blamed working-class consumption for the labor upheavals that were taking place. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
Feminists were almost universally opposed to the new culture of young, working-class women. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
As Horowitz puts it, “In numerous unexamined ways, the budget studies” undertaken by progressives “attacked immigrant and working-class culture, hoping to replace it with the bourgeois emphasis on self-help and personal discipline.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
Lexicographers have found evidence that working-class Irish Americans either invented these terms, modified them from Gaelic origins, redefined them, or put them into common use. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
It may be no coincidence that in the late twentieth century, this style of extraordinarily long and elaborately decorated fingernails became common among black, working-class women—many of whom worked at keyboards and cash registers but who refused to subordinate themselves to their jobs. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
Just as nineteenth-century whites attacked slaves for “foolishly” imitating aristocrats in their dress, LaSelle called the high aspirations of working-class women stupid: ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
Red-Headed Woman, starring Jean Harlow, generated enormous publicity, much of it attacks by moral reformers, because it depicted a working-class woman who seduces her wealthy, seemingly happily married boss. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
