“The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.” PeopleHas BeensMadeStillsReasonStoriesFilmGivenClassSuccessfulWrittenIndustryEnglandWake UpVarietyShockWorking ClassFilm IndustrySuccessful Work Author:Stephen Daldry
“The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into a Guy Ritchie movie and the other five hundred will be Mr. Darcy. So we had to find cool, working class kids with no profile who could be John Travolta and James Dean and people like that.” PeopleIfsKidsGuyClassFiveTerribleThousandHundredEnglandInterviewsWorking ClassTerrible ThingsProfileDeanDarcy Author:Ricky Gervais
“Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.” IfsFeelsHomeSeemsDeathUsedHouseLanguageDifficultDifferencesChurchClassEnglandMiceWorking Class Author:Jeanette Winterson
“There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.” ClassHugeEnglandSouthWorking ClassAntipathy Author:Bill Vaughan
“Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.” YearsBookClassFourHappenedCenturyFashionPagesEnglandDressesMovedCaliforniaDevotedWorking Class19th CenturyBack WhenVictorian Author:Bill Vaughan
“If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit of criminal designs, playing upon national prejudices, and squandering in piratical wars the people's blood and treasure? It was not the wisdom of the ruling classes, but the heroic resistance to their criminal folly by the working classes of England, that saved the west of Europe from plunging headlong into an infamous crusade for the propagation of slavery on the other side of the Atlantic.” PeopleIfsWarSidesClassBloodPolicyDesignEuropePrejudiceEnglandSlaveryWestMissionsCriminalsSavedPursuitTreasureResistanceFollyHeroicForeign PolicyWorking ClassRulingEmancipationCrusadesInfamousPropagationFraternalSquandering Book:Karl Marx: Selected Writings Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings
“My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.” WellsMotherFatherClassEnglandWorking ClassFarmingHousewife Author:David Bowie
“There's a lot of good rappers in England at the moment. There's a lot of good dance acts. A lot of good, young guitar acts. I think a lot of groups came from that dole culture of the late 80's/early 90's - it's not as easy now. I think there's a dearth of working class bands.” ThinkingMomentsYoungCultureEasyClassGroupsBandLateEnglandGuitarRapperWorking ClassGood DanceGood Rapper Author:Ian Brown
“Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.” Has BeensCountryChallengesClassEnglandCapitalistWorking Class Author:Bill Ayers
“The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.” PeopleLooksPersonsMadeStoriesWould BeGuyClassEnglandBritishBackgroundsComicCinemaLook UpVillainAccentsWorking ClassRottenCiphers Author:Michael Caine