The Working Class Goes to Heaven - Characters & Cast

Initially motivated by piecework bonuses and consumer status; later driven by a desperate, mad search for a sense of human dignity outside the factory.

Starts as a highly productive but disliked "model worker." After his injury, he transforms into a frantic activist, only to eventually be crushed back into the system, realizing his individual rebellion has changed nothing.

Security, comfort, and the maintenance of a "normal" domestic life despite the chaos of the factory world.

Remains largely static as a representative of the domestic consumerist world. She is unable to understand Lulù’s political awakening and eventually leaves him when his instability threatens her security.

To warn others of the factory's soul-crushing power and to find peace within his own fractured mind.

An institutionalized former worker who provides Lulù with the philosophical tools to understand his condition, though through the lens of madness.