Working Classes Quotes

Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something I've been doing for 40 years. I thought that was contemptible - what do they want to do, ghettoize the working class as a subject? Can you only write about your own class? I've written about royalty, am I not allowed to do that?

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.

The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise.

At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.