Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from taking out as much as they otherwise could in the interest of solidarity with their poorer union comrades. This requirement gave managers and stockholders higher profits with higher salaries and more dividends in direct contradiction to the goal of equality. Finally, since L.O.'s membership is mainly blue collar, it could do nothing to control the wages of the growing number of white-collar workers organized in separate labor confederations (mainly, the Central Organization of Salaried Employees...
Citizens today can rattle off long lists of immoralities and immoralists. A committee sponsored by Catholic bishops in 1974 printed a typical roll call of contemporary villains: shoplifters, trashers, blue-collar time-clock cheaters, white-collar expense-account padders, tax evaders, political bribe takers, perjurers, economic exploiters, sexual revolutionists, the maritally unfaithful, pornographers, irresponsible mass communicators and those responsible for violent crime. But a mere listing does not do justice to the sense of disease and malaise that is in our hearts, the disappointment and disgust often felt between generations as moral standards are challenged or forgotten, the bewilderment...
...that policy, these days the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. is offering a blend of self-abasement and mystification. Last week, A. & P. introduced the public to two men whose white aprons proclaim them to be Price and Pride. Price-hair parted down the middle, wire-rimmed glasses, collar pin-looks like a study in fiscal conservatism; Pride, bow-tied and portly, looks expansive. In print and on TV they humbly admit that the supermarket chain let them get separated ("Pride was forced to take a back seat...
Their other major argument is that both modern welfare and socialist states encourage ethnics to band together politically because it is easier to be responsive to their demands than to those of larger, less clearly defined groups, such as "workers," or "blue collar employees." Strategically, the state fosters the growth of groups small enough to accomodate (imagine the costs if the government actually wanted to help out all workers) and small enough to feel the benefits of a concession. Glazer and Moynihan neglect to mention the relative ease with which a state can co-opt and control an oppressed...
...working in an office--no matter how near the bottom or how repetitive the job--still exerts attraction that no "objective" economic analysis can explain. In trying to be hopeful, Smith makes the same mistake as Orwell in "The Road to Wigan Pier": the status-oriented students and white collar workers have far more to lose than their aitches...