Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thernstrom contends that this fluidity has been a factor contributing to what he found to be a surprisingly high degree of social mobility in Boston. His exhaustive research shows that during the last century, blue-collar workers were able to make moderate gains in economic status throughout their careers. Their children were much less likely than the children of white-collar workers to begin or end careers at white-collar jobs, but even so, 40 per cent of all blue-collar sons finished their careers in white-collar jobs. Thernstrom concludes...
Much of The Other Bostonians is devoted to discovering why social mobility is greater among some groups than among others. Although children of white-collar parents are much more likely to be upwardly mobile than are those from blue-collar families, social origin alone was insufficient to explain the social mobility apparent in Thernstrom's statistics...
...many of his later books, Hanley has shown a finer hand without sacrificing power, particularly in The Closed Harbor (1953), the story of a sea captain who haunts the docks after losing his ship, and in Another World (1972), in which sexual passion turns the collar of a middle-aged cleric. Through the years, Hanley's lasting concern with life's leftovers and outcasts has changed only in style. The line between A Woman in the Sky and Men in Darkness (1931) is direct. "Obliterate yourself...
Corcoran said the complex, which will also house Draper's research in oceanography and other non-military sciences, will employ about 300 blue-collar workers and a thousand non-professional white-collar workers, as well as some research and development specialists...
...Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion. In deference to Castro, who was wearing his inevitable fatigues, the Soviet Party Chief, 67, abandoned his customary dark business suit for a casual tunic jacket and a white Panama hat. Anxious to impress the shirt-sleeved masses with his own blue-collar credentials, Brezhnev told the rally that he, his father and brother had all worked in a steel mill...