What if they added up to a picture of working-class heroes?

The upwardly mobile working-class hero is one of our cultural icons.

John Lennon sang that a working-class hero was something to be.

At some point toward the end of the 20th century, the working-class hero died.

I heard about working-class heroes and villains and people who never worked at all.

The problem for a working-class hero is that he too is defined in other people's dreams.

Just because he came from a working-class background doesn't make him a working-class hero.

She says that even if his story is true, he was just an angry person acting out and not a case of "a working-class hero".

Of all working-class heroes, miners labor under the most difficult and dangerous conditions.

At least he could show this working-class hero how to climb.