The world of the working class made good, of Pamela and Mick from Gavin and Stacey, of cul-de-sacs fringed with roomy modern homes, complete with mock-Tudor windows, crew-cut lawns and organised planting arrangements.
Surveying hundreds of autobiographical accounts by people who experienced the changes firsthand, she finds that for much of the British working class "the good wages and regular work that could be found in the factories more than compensated for the clatter of the machines".
Whether you're a sadboy protagonist coming out of your shell, a supervillain celebrating a particularly devious plot, or a magical chimney sweep symbolizing the working class, a good dance is an entertaining way to push character development and plot devices forward.
Tulisa is famously a working class girl made good, though of course made good is never what she is allowed to be.
By the time I got to Kersal, I felt working class on a good day, and the solitary member of an elite underclass on a bad one.
Maybe it was easier to continue propagating the stereotype of the working class as a good ol' boys' drinking club, with members who resemble thugs.
We were ridiculed, we were old-fashioned, poor, and didn't know what was happening in the cool world of the "yuppie" and "loadsamoney" – a catchphrase made up by a middle-class comedian about working class people made good.
Milburn said that while there had been social policy successes in recent years, including record numbers of working class children achieving good GCSEs and entering university, there were still huge problems.
This endless exercise of putting ourselves in boxes is not helping us to foster a broader and inclusive British identity, nor tackling the real problems that the whole working class face: finding good jobs, decent housing and having access to properly funded public services.
Webb is challenging Democrats to come to grips with the obvious: white working class voters have good reasons for believing the party doesn't stand for economic fairness for them.
