Word: blue-collar
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...bizarre spectacle, garnished with machismo and the threat of death: the ultimate expression of the motorcycle culture and, according to one Evel Knievel aide, "a blue-collar Woodstock." Squadrons of bikers roared through Twin Falls, their girls and gear nestled against their backs. Fans from every state in the union formed a camper city that was soon awash in beer, dope, cocaine and false rumors of savage beatings and rapes...
...quarter of those in the economically distressed group are under 25, while 49% are under 35. The economically distressed also tended to be blue-collar workers (53%) and married with children (51%). About three-fifths have incomes of $10,000 or more a year. Two out of three label themselves as Democrats, compared with 55% of the population as a whole, and more voted for George McGovern (40%) than for Richard Nixon...
...purposes of analysis, the two groups were labeled resentful and non-resentful Americans, somewhat of a necessary oversimplification: obviously, their attitudes often overlap. The resentful tend to have less than a high school education (51% v. 31% of the nonresentful), to have blue-collar jobs (53% v. 39%), earn less than $10,000 a year (52% v. 34%), to be Southerners (41% v. 29%) and to live in small towns or rural areas...
...provisions are enough to make the act "landmark legislation" in the view of Bertran Seidman, Social Security director of the AFL-CIO. But the law does not go far enough to please many advocates of pension reform. No employer would be required to set up a pension plan. Many blue-collar workers take their first jobs at 16 but would not have to be included in pension plans until they are 25 (though they must then be given credit for three years' vesting). Karen W. Ferguson, a Washington attorney and ally of Ralph Nader, complains that not requiring full...
...once grim and quietly optimistic. In 1955, full-time women workers earned 64 per cent of the average full-time salary for men. Rather than narrowing, the gap is getting wider. In 1972, women earned only 59 per cent as much as men. And predictably enough, it is the blue-collar women workers, who can least afford to, who have shouldered the lion's share of that inequity. And as Seifer details, they have shouldered even more--the deadly tedium of the only kind of jobs they can get, and their own guilt and their husbands' resentment that they...