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Much of the Murphys’ fervent fan base also grew around their music’s working class appeal. Protest songs such as “Which Side Are You On?” and “10 Years of Service” speak to blue collar punk fans who are increasingly disenchanted by punk’s now widely-commercialized image...
...Many [undergraduates] have the same conceptions that I did—that unions are for poor people, perhaps maybe for blue-collar people,” she said. “I see unions as a means of anyone asserting democratic control in their workplace and therefore important for anyone...
Gephardt and Senator Joe Lieberman are bookends, of a sort. Gephardt represents the decent past--the blue-collar, Roosevelt coalition, Midwestern populist, Old Democratic Party. Lieberman represents the recent past--the high-tech, welfare-reforming, free-trading New Democratic Party. And both seem slightly irrelevant so far. Both are solid citizens, but older, less hip than their competitors; neither seems comfortable being ushered to the stage with rock music. Neither lights any fires on the stump. They are probably the two most hawkish Democrats in the race. These are not advantages with party activists at the moment...
...only indicator where females perform worse" than males, says Andrea Ichino, an economics professor at the European University in Florence, citing women's health issues and family commitments as possible reasons. And statistics reveal that manual workers are more likely to be absent from work than their white-collar counterparts, thanks to injurious working conditions and lack of economic incentives. Unfortunately, some strategies to verify illness have made the absenteeism issue more opaque. In Belgium, citizens who want to take time off sick present employers with an easy-to-obtain medical certificate which specifies how long they will...
...Gephardt and Senator Joe Lieberman are bookends, of a sort. Gephardt represents the decent past - the blue-collar, Roosevelt coalition, Midwestern populist, Old Democratic Party. Lieberman represents the recent past - the high-tech, welfare-reforming, free-trading New Democratic Party. And both seem slightly irrelevant so far. Both are solid citizens, but older, less hip than their competitors; neither seems comfortable being ushered to the stage with rock music. Neither lights any fires on the stump. They are probably the two most hawkish Democrats in the race. These are not advantages with party activists at the moment...