Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spurred on by a noisy crowd of Cambridgeport residents, who aceused MIT of "blighting the area," the council also requested that the city's Community Development Department study possible rezoning of the area to attract blue-collar industry...
...people, when you talk about these kinds of experiments, have a feeling that they might be a fine idea for things like the assembly line and blue-collar factories where work is most clearly dehumanizing, but they have an image of white-collar work as more fulfilling. They feel that applications of these developments to white-collar setting is unnecessary because the work is already intrinsically rewarding...
...Well, I think that there is a lot of white-collar work that is obviously dehumanizing--like clerical work or in the insurance office. A lot of factory principles pertain there: the use of standards and the structure of the organization, the use of technology and electronic data processing...
...white collar, professional work, in many cases the dehumanization has to do with the hierarchy, with a lack of respect, with not listening to people, not cooperating, not using knowledge. There are experiments in the government now, for example with auditors in the Commerce Department (which is very white collar, professional work), which show how much morale and cooperation improve in a project which allows participation in looking at travel policy, personnel policy and policies about the very nature of auditing itself...
Wailed Dudley Dudley, who headed the original Kennedy write-in campaign in New Hampshire: "It was the flag. People kept saying that in a time of crisis, they had to support the President." Kennedy carried no major segment of New Hampshire Democrats, except the young. He lost the blue-collar vote, which he considered one of his basic constituencies. He lost the most heavily Catholic precincts, in part because he favors federal financing of abortion for poor women when medically necessary. He lost all of New Hampshire's largest cities except Dover and Portsmouth, where he was in agreement...