[seanhunter]

That might be true in your experience, but in the UK, issues of class were a huge part of cultural life throughout the 80s and 90s, with people like Mike Leigh, Stephen Frears, Ken Loach etc.

If you've never seen any of this, I would recommend "Kes" as a great place to start, also "Abigail's Party" as a satire of noveau-riche middle class aspiration, and "High Hopes" as a very moving examination of class aspiration and clashes of beliefs about social mobility in Thatcher's Britain.

[pjc50]

> issues of class were a huge part of cultural life throughout the 80s and 90s

Yes, and this is much less the case now. Changes to the economics of culture have closed a lot of doors. As well as the massive expansion of university, which magically conveys "middle class" status on people even if they are still heavily indebted wage slaves.

Lurking under a lot of this stuff are two nasty questions:

- whether the word "white" is attached to "working class", even invisibly

- whether people who are retired count as "working class", even if they are property owners with private pensions

[piltdownman]

Classism may have diminished, but the subjugation of the working classes via abhorrences like "the gig economy" are almost Victorian in their draconian bureaucracy and dehumanisation. These are most ably depicted in Ken Loach's scathing critique Sorry We Missed You (2019), or Roddy Doyle's Rosie (2018).