TillieOlsen's "I Stand Here Ironing" (1961)isa short story about the relationship between mother and daughter and the effects that poverty and a working class life can have on two people.

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, by Alan Sillitoe, is a novel about Britain's working class life.

John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1957) is a play that offers an antihero, Jimmy Porter, on the verge of the middle class but aware that the upper class can squash his climb up at any moment.

Carolyn Kay Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story (1987) is about growing up working class in England and the struggle for survival.

D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (1913) is set in the factory town of Nottinghamshire, a coal mining village. This novel is considered one of the first British novels to focus on working class life.