In the same way, people are always depicted as trying to "escape" the working class, when really they are just trying to escape poverty and lack of opportunity.
Like my father's, my visits home were brief; I was using my education the way I was supposed to, to escape the working class that my ambitious mother had found herself trapped in.
The job also doesn't escape the work-life balance challenges that are common in academia.
Since industrialisation, drugs have been used not just to escape the working day, but to manage it, to switch between toil and pleasure.
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We're fed a nostalgic version of the working-class past, populated by two, male, stereotypes: hardworking labour activists, the forefathers of Labour's "hardworking families"; and socially aspirant young men set on escaping the working class, who populated novels and films such as Room at the Top, and legitimate politicians' emphasis on social mobility.
Parental leave was transformed from a way to escape the world of work into a way to maximize the benefits available to families; from an emotional decision to a financial one; from something mothers do to something every parent does.
By drastically limiting how a class-action suit can be brought, the Supreme Court leaves millions of service-sector workers with few avenues to escape the grinding work life and limited opportunities that so many now face.
His father had drunk to escape the monotony of work and to ease the pressures of survival.
To escape the pressures of work and public life, he has become an avid theatergoer, favoring musical revivals.
