Relationships between class imagery, size of workplace and type of community are briefly examined in analyzing data from a study of shopfloor workers in small and large firms in the printing and electronics industries in an affluent, urban conurbation. The results confirm recent studies reporting that the link between deferential imagery and small firm employment has little empirical support. The data suggests that the industry in which the worker is employed may be a more important influence on social imagery than size of workplace. The findings also indicate that life cycle position interacts with size of workplace in influencing worker attitudes but not in any neat one-to-one fashion. Finally, community structure is also confirmed as an influence on small firm worker social imagery, though not towards the adoption of a deferential class model.