Word: blue-collar
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...succeed at selling customized products, firms need skilled work forces able to adapt rapidly to changing customer needs. Instead of sharpening workers' skills, Reich says, many big companies have laid off employees in the U.S. and set up assembly lines overseas. Rather than push hard for retraining, most blue-collar unions have clung to rigid job classifications and inefficient work rules...
...that led to success after college. In his new work, which focuses on 136 men who became alcoholics, Vaillant also draws on his experience as a director of the respected Cambridge Hospital Alcohol Program. Vaillant and his fellow researchers watched 26 from the Harvard group and 110 from the blue-collar group travel their individual paths to alcoholism and, equally important for the study, observed men with similar lives who did not develop problems...
...Alcoholics Anonymous. He argues that the first step to sobriety is an acceptance of the first precept of A.A.: "I am powerless over alcohol." Says Vaillant: "A.A. is the most effective means of treating alcoholism, and it worked for sophisticated, Harvard-educated loners as well as for gregarious blue-collar workers...
...spanking-clean hard hat, electric-blue jumpsuit and unblemished tennis sneakers, he looked more like a catalogue ad for blue-collar chic than a bona fide construction worker. But it turned out that Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, 51, swings a mean pickax. Reproved at a political meeting for junketing about the globe instead of minding the store at home, Young replied: "It would be nice to stay here and fill the potholes. If you find a pothole, see me. I'll fill it up myself." Naturally, the next day, Hizzoner's office received 60 calls. In four scheduled...
...Indeed, the Yankelovich survey found that blue-collar workers are more likely than professionals (14% vs. 9%) to have tried cocaine...