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  • On the contrary, "he wrote 'Treemonisha' specifically to offer an accessible operatic form to the middle- and working-classes, who attended vaudeville shows in neighborhood theaters."

    'Treemonisha' as It Was Intended To Be Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

  • The ultra-rich getting substantially richer and the middle- and working-classes getting nowhere has nothing to do with public policies that favor the rich, like well-heeled lobbyists representing narrow interests?

    Does 'E Pluribus Unum' Still Apply to Our Country? 2012

  • His socialism was always essentially internationalist, particularly since the English working-classes responded sluggishly to literature he handed out at factory gates for the International Socialists, a Trotskyist group he joined from 1966 to 1976.

    Christopher Hitchens obituary 2011

  • It is a perishing class (wily statisticians to the contrary), and its historic mission of buffer between the capitalist - and working-classes has just about been fulfilled.

    Revolution 2010

  • Hmm, I think you'll find plenty of the 'working-classes' have re-located for the benefit of a more agreeable climate.

    Globalisation: What's in it for the working class? 2009

  • True economic recovery will come only when the middle - and working-classes are provided economic security and stability.

    Whitman's Economic Plan: All Power to the Plutocrats 2010

  • Dislike the middle-class all you like, but let's not pretend that a determination to clip their wings won't also hit the aspirational working-classes.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • The politics of greed, the basis of these actions, has place the entire middle - and working-classes at risk of becoming the 'second nation' warned of by John Edwards in his bid for the presidency.

    Money, the Root of All Evil 2009

  • After World War I the rising influence of the middle-and working-classes forced the Union to expand its governing council to include middle-class women.

    Union of Jewish Women. 2009

  • Dislike the middle-class all you like, but let's not pretend that a determination to clip their wings won't also hit the aspirational working-classes.

    Rod Liddle's Education Policy is Antediluvian Piffle 2009

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