Word: collared
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...lyrics. Carpenter's literary allusions have run from Eudora Welty to old Geritol commercials, but the usual subject of her songs is love -- old love, careless love. So what else is new? The range of feelings she mines. At its best, love is hard work, like a decent blue-collar job ("Everything we got, we got the hard way"). At its worst, it's the rest of our lives...
...Those are the kinds of jobs we'll want in the city--blue collar jobs," MacManus said...
Thus, it is no simple matter to devise a political campaign that can appeal to Southern blacks as well as whites, to Florida motel operators as well as Texas bankers, to South Carolina cotton growers as well as Virginia lawyers, to blue-collar as well as white-collar workers. The South, once derided as a cultural and political backwater, has come to resemble the rest of America, both physically and in its social and political attitudes, more closely than at any other time in the country's history. "Today," says Carter, whose candidacy helped end the South's isolation, "Oregon...
Utopias are supposed to be dreams of the future. But the American Utopia? Lately it's a dream that was, a twilit memory of the golden age between V-J day and OPEC, when even a blue-collar paycheck bought a place in the middle class. The promise of paradise regained has become a key to the Democratic Party pitch. Mickey Kaus, a senior editor of the New Republic, says the Democrats are wasting their time. As the U.S. enters a world where only the highly skilled and well educated will make a decent living, the gap between rich...
...situation quite like this," says Janet Norwood, the former U.S. commissioner of labor statistics. "It used to be that when we had a recession, everyone would wait to be rehired. But the psychology now is that many of these jobs are not going to come back." White-collar workers are feeling the pinch as never before. Harvard economist James Medoff points out that white-collar employees constitute 36% of the country's unemployed workers, compared with 22% during the 1982 slump...