“The welfare state disempowered working class people people by taking away their ability to self-organise, by taking away their ability to work with each other. It atomised working class communities and also prevented innovation and aspiration for those at the bottom.”

An Audience With Billy - 1985

Question http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1988/jul/12/inequalities-in-london in the House of Commons (12 July 1988). <br class="br">1980s

Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)

1900s, A Square Deal (1903)
Context: The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us, and therefore in public life that man is the best representative of each of us who seeks to do good to each by doing good to all; in other words, whose endeavor it is not to represent any special class and promote merely that class's selfish interests, but to represent all true and honest men of all sections and all classes and to work for their interests by working for our common country. We can keep our government on a sane and healthy basis, we can make and keep our social system what it should be, only on condition of judging each man, not as a member of a class, but on his worth as a man. It is an infamous thing in our American life, and fundamentally treacherous to our institutions, to apply to any man any test save that of his personal worth, or to draw between two sets of men any distinction save the distinction of conduct, the distinction that marks off those who do well and wisely from those who do ill and foolishly.

Maurice Glasman on Democracy, creative destruction and Wolf Hall https://soundcloud.com/university-of-cambridge/1-maurice-glasman-on-democracy

Greg Hunt (2020) cited in: &quot; Wuhan virus: Australia confirms fifth coronavirus case from last flight out of Wuhan https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/wuhan-virus-australia-confirms-fifth-coronavirus-case-from-last-flight-out-of-wuhan&quot; in The Straits Times, 27 January 2020.

The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)
Variant: War, bloody war, must be ended by the working class.
Context: The working class must be emancipated by the working class.
Woman must be given her true place in society by the working class.
Child labor must be abolished by the working class.
Society must be reconstructed by the working class.
The working class must be employed by the working class.
The fruits of labor must be enjoyed by the working class.
War, bloody war, must be ended by the working class.

Source: Dilbert's Guide to the Rest of Your Life: Dispatches from Cubicleland

As cited in Legendary Locals of Troy, New York (2011), p. 11