ABSTRACT
'Them' may be, as occasion requires, anyone from the classes outside other than the few individuals from those classes whom working-people know as individuals. 'Them' includes the policemen and those civil servants or local-authority employees whom the working-classes meet—teachers, the school attendance man, 'the Corporation', the local bench. Working-class people, with their roots so strongly in the homely and personal and local, and with little training in more general thinking, are even less likely to be able to bring the two worlds into focus. One traditional release of working-class people in their dealings with authority is more positive than this. The sense of a group warmth exercises a powerful hold, and continues to be missed when individuals have moved, financially and probably geographically, out of the working-classes. Working-class people watch and are watched in a manner which, because horizons are limited, will often result in a mistaken, and lowering, interpretation of what the neighbours do.
