Howard Melvin Fast was born Nov. 11, 1914, in Manhattan, one of four children of a working-class couple.

This family motif is carried out even in the brothel scene, where the pander and the bawd are made to seem like a working-class domestic couple.

Many of the cases involve working-class couples in the Lower Naugatuck Valley who can no longer afford their mortgages.

These Americans tend to be young, working-class couples with large families-more than half have two or more kids-living in small homes and manufactured housing.

Her character, Florence Keefer, was one half of an embattled working-class couple struggling through hard times.

Illeana Douglas and Chris Mulkey play a working-class couple who faithfully follow the tabloid swill.

Last year ended a bit brighter for Terry and Beverly Hicks, a working-class couple here.

The study also found working-class cohabitating couples were more apt to view marriage as "just a piece of paper," nearly identical to their existing relationship.

Like that classic, it features a working-class married couple who love each other but argue over everything.

Middle-class couples marry 2-3 years later than working-class couples (see Chapter 5).