The strongest elements are the descriptions of working-class life and the tender portrayal of maternal and filial love.

ECONOMIST: Non-fiction

Working-class life is not the book's strong point.

CNN: The Never-Ending Story

Varda keenly observes the rhythms and textures of daily life in a working-class suburb of Paris while keeping an eye on the way that her male peers approach the same theme.

NEWYORKER: Le Bonheur

Augustyniak lives on the Left Bank, Amzalag the Right, having spent his entire life in the same working-class neighborhood where their office is now.

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"They enabled poor and working-class Americans to gain access to the good life, " said Jeff Wiltse, a history professor at the University of Montana and author of a social history of swimming pools.

WSJ: Awash in History, McCarren Park Pool Reopens

Born in London's working-class neighborhood of Bethnal Green, McNally came to the restaurant business late in life, starting out in the film and theater industries at the tender age of 16.

WSJ: Keith McNally | Tracked

The centre of gay life in Sydney is Oxford Street, an inner-city Victorian thoroughfare where once tough, working-class pubs have been transformed into the rowdiest gay drinking places in the world.

ECONOMIST: Gays and the Australian economy