Working-class American men are getting lonelier and sicker ... work for their wages under bosses and managers, not always for high pay or in excellent conditions. Nevertheless, the education ...

Ralph Lauren’s Polo logo is woven into the American image ... British men in high positions, in trades such as finance and law, wore frock coats; working-class clerks and administrators wore ...

By high school ... all of the income gains that middle-class American families have enjoyed since 1970 are because of increases in women’s earnings. Men are also struggling physically.

Simply sign up to the Style myFT Digest -- delivered ... his country club or his company. To be American is to entertain both the urge to separate from the working class and to identify deeply ...