Working Class


Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
The Road to Wigan Pier
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
Shuggie Bain
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
North and South
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Last Night at the Lobster
Down and Out in Paris and London
The Jungle
A Kestrel for a Knave
La escritora muerta
Post Office
David Graeber
The belief that what ultimately motivates human beings has always been, and must always be, the pursuit of wealth, power, comforts, and pleasure, has always and must always be complemented by a doctrine of work as self-sacrifice, as valuable precisely because it is the place of misery, sadism, emptiness, and despair. As Carlyle put it: “All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble, be that here said and asserted once more. And in like manner too, all dignity is painful. A life o ...more
David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes. ...more
Peter O'Toole

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