KnowraWorking-class literatureLinked fromLinked fromThe 11 pages that link to Working-class literature, each with the reason it gives.All 11Related 7Narrower topic 3Compared with 1Raymond WilliamsRelated: Williams brought working-class experience into a literary tradition often framed around elite culture.Elizabeth GaskellNarrower topic: Gaskell’s novels became influential portrayals of working-class communities by a middle-class author.English novelRelated: English novels helped make industrial labor and class conflict subjects of sustained narrative attention.Proletarian literatureCompared with: The broader category includes writing about workers without proletarian politics or commitments.Harry MartinsonRelated: His childhood poverty and early labor shaped recurring subjects and perspectives.Ken LoachRelated: Its attention to class experience parallels the subjects and perspective of Loach’s cinema.Catherine CooksonNarrower topic: Cookson’s background and subject matter place her fiction within this broad tradition.Lanford WilsonRelated: Many Wilson characters face economic precarity and limited choices in small-town or urban settings.Studs TerkelRelated: Terkel’s subjects often described labor and social class in their own words.Albert FaceyRelated: Facey’s account gives unusual prominence to the labor and material hardship of an ordinary life.Alf PrøysenNarrower topic: Prøysen gave people of modest means a vivid presence in Norwegian writing.