Word: barkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unskilled and semiskilled laborers constituted less than a quarter of the U.S. work force-but almost half the long-term unemployed. In an increasingly automated and sophisticated economy, those workers who could offer only their physical strength and five senses were becoming not only unemployed but unemployable. Laments Solomon Barkin, research director of the Textile Workers Union: "The new types of jobs we are moving toward automatically disqualify a substantial proportion of the working population...