Is it the kind of work you do, your relationship to the means of production?

There are 3 questions that need to be answered using the information from chapter 6 of Demagoguery and Democracy by Patricia Roberts-Miller
Question 1: What is a voice marker?
Question 2: Patricia Roberts-Miller compares demagoguery to an environmental factor like algae. What does she mean by this?
Question 3: Identify the voice markers in the following excerpt:
Marx and Engles wrote: “Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other–the bourgeoisie and the proletariat” (10). If only that were true, things might be more simple. But in late twentieth-century America, it seems that society is splitting more and more into a plethora of class factions — the working class, the working poor, lower-middle, upper-middle, lower uppers, and upper uppers. I find myself not knowing what class I’m from.
In my days as a newspaper reporter, I once asked a sociology professor what he thought about the reported shrinking of the middle class. Oh, its not the middle class that’s disappearing, he said, but the working class. His definition: if you earn thirty thousand dollars a year working in an assembly plant, come home from work, open a beer and watch the game, you are working class; if you earn twenty thousand dollars a year, come home from work to a glass of white wine and PBS, you are middle class.
How do we define class? Is it an issue of values, lifestyle, taste? Is it the kind of work you do, your relationship to the means of production? Is it a matter of how much money you earn? Are we allowed to choose? In this land of supposed classlessness, where we don’t have the tradition of English society to keep us in our place, how do we know where we really belong? The average American will tell you he or she is “middle class.” I’m sure that’s what my father would tell you. But I always felt that we were in some no man’s land, suspended between classes, sharing similarities with some and recognizing sharp, exclusionary differences from others. What class do I come from? What class am I in now? As an historian, I seek the answers to these questions in the specificity of my past.

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