The Classic Slum Robert Roberts

John recommended that I would like this book - It details the everyday life of working-class people in the Edwardian period in Salford. 

So far I've found the book really interesting, it's given me a fuller picture of the niceties and the do's and don'ts that working-class communities kept up it's interesting to see where certain traditions have come from that we still up hold today. 
There was one section I found very relevant since I am exploring how working-class are portrayed and the value they have in literature
'One or two proletarian authors, writing about these times and of the slump between the wars, appear to me to sentimentalize the working class: even worse, by too often depicting its cruder more moronic members they end by caricaturing the class as a whole. In general, women in the slums were far from being foul-mouthed sluts and harridans, sitting in semi-starvation at home in between trips to the pub and pawnshop, nor were most men boors and drunken braggarts.' 

This observation of poor people being portrayed and therefore judged this way is still apparent in today's society. Much  less than in literature but on TV. Shows like Benefit Britain appear to be portraying sympathy to people who rely on the state but in fact it goes completely against them and leaves them being judged for not being able to work. 
This notion of poor people only going to the pub and then back home is still a prejudice held in society which I think is a reflection of the government. 
When Cathy Come Home was released in November 1966 people were shocked at the conditions working people were living in and this helped to push the judgement out. Despite Loach's 2016 I Daniel Blake which is a modern day Cathy Come Home these prejudices still stand.