Word: blue-collar
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...unskilled has discouraged workers from learning a trade, especially since apprentice wages are far less than unskilled pay. The skilled worker's pay advantage over the unskilled dropped from 80% in 1932 to about 40% in 1957. During the same period the social feeling against "blue-collar" work has increased. Says B. Gordon Funk, industrial arts supervisor for the Los Angeles Board of Education: "Boys and their parents are made to believe in the social necessity of a university education, even though we know that an IQ of no is necessary to succeed in college, and many of those...