Modes of production of working-class literature from Asia by Lei, Luka Zhang

“…In recent years, we are witnessing a growing interest and urgency in the exploration of working-class literature. However, systematical and historical investigations of working-class literature are still rare in Asian countries. …”
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Educational inequality and student engagement: an in-depth study of school experiences across social class and track by Kheng, Cameron

“…In contrast, many working-class students in the lower tracks perceived school as irrelevant to their lives. …”
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Ugly Singaporeans by Chang, Vivienne Wei Ling

“…It is the year 2023, Singapore is now divided into the East End, where foreigners and rich locals live, and the West End, home to the working-class Singaporeans. Follow the lives of two West-Enders, Ben and Aaron, as they navigate the waters of a divided Singapore. …”
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The Beckham phenomenon and consumerism by Yeong, Dong Lin

“…David Robert Joseph Beckham is a symbol of fantasy, a dream and fairy tale in reality. He grew up in a working class family but gifted with enough football talent and skill that enabled him to go professional. …”
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The sandwich generation : role balancing and self-identity for women by Fwah, Bing Guang

“…Accompanied by low fertility rates, the burden of supporting the old is increasingly placed in the hands of the working class. In particular, women from the sandwich generation who have both dependent children and elderly parents to take care of while working, are bound to experience the greatest repercussions. …”
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Design and development of a system that acts as a guardian angel of firefighters (B) by Tan, Jin Ting

“…Mobile phone users are not just found amongst the young people and the working class. These days, it is common to see children and the elderlies with smart phones. …”
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Retirement in Singapore : rethinking the role of the Central Provident Fund by Lim, Lydia Ruo Ching

“…Interviews with respondents of the working class aged 45 years old and above will be conducted in order to seek a better understanding of public sentiments with regards to the CPF framework. …”
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Vestigial pop : Hokkien popular music and the cultural fossilization of subalternity in Singapore by Liew, Kai Khiun, Chan, Brenda

“…Instead of the mark of evolving, living culture, Hokkien music resembles more of a vestigial articulation of working class tribulations and of middle class nostalgia and reaction to the vicissitudes of capitalist modernity in Singapore. …”
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Diseases, peasants, and nation-building in rural China : social conformity, institutional strengthening, and political indoctrination by Fang, Xiaoping

“…In 1949, the newly-established communist government claimed that the People’s Republic of China was a socialist country ruled by a people’s democratic dictatorship under the leadership of the working class, based on the union of workers, peasants, and soldiers. …”
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Blessings of liberty in colonial and neo-colonial Philippines. by Chen, Jieying.

“…There are recurrent social problems in the five novels, and the most important one of all is that the brightest in the Philippines do not side with the working class.…”
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南方艺术团/南方艺术研究会（1972-1997）= Southern arts society (1972-1997) by 王善田 Ong, Shan Tian

“…The Southern Arts Society was founded in 1972 and it performed theatre works that emphasised on the working class and communist ideologies. In 1976, the Singapore government arrested a group of dramatist under the Internal Security Act, including several members from Southern Arts Society. …”
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'I am Limpeh (your father)!' Parodying Hegemony, Anti-nostalgic Cultural Insurgency and the Visual Amplification of Lee Kuan Yew in Late Authoritarian Singapore by Khiun, Liew Kai

“…As a masculinistic self-assertion of one’s authority, ‘limpeh’ is often crudely associated with the Hokkien/Minan-speaking ethnic Singaporean Chinese working class. Singaporeans have also recognized the characteristics of ‘limpeh’ with the authoritarian legacy of Lee who had displayed little mercy in crushing his political rivals and pushing his social vision to society. …”
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论东南亚海南族群改善生活与社会地位的过程 = A study about Southeast Asia Hainanese's road to better life and status by 何易娗 Oh, Desiree Yi Ting

“…As most of the occupation areas have been occupied by other gangs, Hainan people mainly engaged in the occupation of the working class, especially the low-level service industry. …”
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Singapore’s discipline through class consciousness : the “cosmopolitan” and “heartlander” in Raffles place ragtime and eating air by Hong, Grace Chu Yu

“…Although I acknowledge that class visibility in Singapore is complex as differences are not that apparent in part due to governmental efforts (Chua 15), for the purpose of this essay I will divide Singapore’s class system across middle to upper-class “cosmopolitans” and the working-class “heartlanders”. These were terms used in the 1999 National Day Rally Speech made by former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, and has since been academically cited in Singapore class discourse, as well as presented in local media (Chua 11). …”
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Brexit and Its Aftermath - What now for Britain and EU? by Mordecai, Aédán

“…Borne from the disillusionment of the working classes, many wonder what will be next for the UK and the EU.…”
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