Even so, it is a mistake to reduce working class experience to nothing but jobs and justice. A small, ordinary example of power in cultural action is found in Sennett and Cobb’s The Hidden Injuries of Class (1972), in which they describe two men, a construction worker and a schoolteacher. They were next-door neighbors, friendly, and their incomes were roughly the same. Nevertheless, the schoolteacher called the construction worker by his first name and the construction worker called his neighbor “mister.”
