Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Technology's dazzling breakthroughs shake up the white-collar world...
Both the ideas and the constituencies of the Democratic Party have grown thinner, partly because of the party's own past successes. Now, more have-nots have. Blue-collar workers, who were once a strong and reliable phalanx of Democratic power, have joined the middle class; in straitened times, an era of limits, they see Big Government not as a source of protection, as before, but as a vast bureaucracy, the big spenders installed by Democrats, extorting their tax dollars. They rebel against welfare. If the economic pie will not expand, then a certain amount of the emotional generosity...
Despite some initial grumbling that the new machines would turn them into white-collar automatons, secretaries and clerical people usually welcome the appearance of a word processor or minicomputer console on their desks. Betty Mates, 31, a Citibank clerical worker for close to 13 years, now uses a Digital Equipment Corp. minicomputer in the bank's letters-of-credit department. Says she: "The department used to be chaos. One letter would get handled by four, five or six people. But with the new system, one person handles everything. I had no trouble adjusting. To me it was like...
...office-equipment industry is getting its bounce from American businesses's rush to cut costs and boost productivity. The most unproductive workers in many companies today are office employees and executives. Between 1972 and 1977, blue-collar productivity grew by more than 2% annually, while white-collar efficiency increased by only .4% a year. In the U.S.'s service-oriented economy, the paper chase of the American office is already tying up 25% of the nation's work force, and by 1990 the figure is projected to rise to 40%. The number of workers entering the labor...
...Brown, deputy campaign director of the campaign of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), added, "The blue-collar worker's vote had nothing to do with ideology. It was a bread-and-butter issue...