Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White Majority is a collection of essays about the Mike Dombrowskis of America, the blue- and white-collar workers of the white lower middle class. Caught between poverty and affluence, they are the forgotten Americans patronized by Richard Nixon and George Wallace...
...working-class work and life is what alienates the white majority. The illusion of an affluent society mocks members of the white majority whose real wages are falling, who are getting deeper in debt, and who face a lifetime on an assembly line or in a mechanical white collar...
Faith in individualism is reflected in the lack of organization among the white majority. Only about 25 per cent of the work force is unionized, primarily in the blue-collar mass production sector. This degree of unionization is one of the lowest in the West. White-collar clerical, governmental and other service positions, filled primarily by the white majority and in an expanding sector of the economy, have resisted unionization almost totally. Although recent improvements in organization in this sector have been evidenced by wild-cat police and postal worker strikes, much work needs to be done...
...mutual funds has long gone; bank interest rates on ordinary passbook savings accounts have been at 5% or lower. If the President's freeze cools inflation, the savings bond rates will look even better. Insecure about the future, many small investors-particularly middle-aged blue collar workers-are seeking financial refuge in the Government's securities...
...tribe with a large number of female members, and thus more prone to bring about the collapse of a corporation's tribal structure-namely, a strike. The longest and bitterest strikes involve the all-male tribes in mines, docks and factories, whereas strikes of female-dominated white-collar tribes are milder...