We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

A working-class hero is something to be.

Getting a lousy education, then spending a lifetime pitted against your fellow workers in the gladiatorial theater of the free market economy does not make for optimism or open mindedness, both hallmarks of liberalism. It makes for a kind of bleak coarseness and inner degradation that allows working people to accept the American empire's wars without a blink.