They mention her working-class upbringing in the Bronx, and how the $5,000 first prize at the Miss America Pageant permitted the purchase of a piano.

Nonetheless, his argument that Stewart's success is driven by anger at her cruel father and resentment of her working-class upbringing seems simplistic.

Everyone that worked on his record had working-class upbringings.

I had a struggling, working-class upbringing, and RADA was the first time I wasn't around like-minded people.

They shared a working-class upbringing before marrying and striking it rich in the garment business.

From a working-class upbringing in Brooklyn, Mr. Niederhoffer got himself into Harvard, won the squash championship and speculated his way to a fortune.

Yet despite his working-class upbringing and the outlaw poses, Mr. Galliano's understanding of fashion and business does lie with the establishment.

Chaplin's father was a butcher, and he had a working-class upbringing.

The son of a mailman, he likes to say that he got his frugality from his working-class upbringing in steel-mill country outside Pittsburgh.

Many of Banks's works reflect his working-class upbringing.