Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arguments against trade unions are long and familiar; every economics textbook since Samuelson's has insisted that unions restrict the labor supply and extract from management higher wages for a blue collar elite, at the expense of jobs for thousands of others. And ever since organized labor became an integral part of the American economy, experts have called unions inefficient and unproductive because they give too many jobs to unions members who perform superfluous functions. Laymen, too, dislike unions simply for the corruption they feel many unions leaders display...
...ticket as Vice President. The second question is whether Jackson is going to have a Cabinet job." Jackson has shown no interest in either, but that has not let Mondale off the hook. Says Scammon: "If Mondale panders to Jackson at the convention, white Southerners and white blue-collar workers would turn away, in addition to the Jews...
Nonetheless, last year's high corporate pay stubs are leading to some radical proposals, including plans that would link executive salaries to those given blue-collar workers. A company chairman, for example, might be limited to 25 times the salary of the lowest-paid employee. But that type of simplistic mathematical solution is very far from the real world. The conditions for the pay of each chief executive are unique and based on such factors as performance, responsibility and the size of the company...
...woman who has no patience with sermons and no time for homilies. Besides the rueful and gritty Back on the Chain Gang, the album also includes a ravishing love song, 2000 Miles; a corrosive paean to suburban gentrification, My City Was Gone; a sharp bit of blue-collar feminism, Watching the Clothes; and, perhaps best of all, Thumbelina, one of the most hard-boiled lullabies ever written. Set to a kind of choogling Nashville beat, the song manages to combine love for the innocence of a young child ("shuffled about like a pawned wedding ring") and rage over a broken...
...rushed moments of tension between parents, lovers and bosses. But paradoxically, these laborious description also redeem the book and make it worth our attention, no matter how much stylistic damage they wreak. Though The Real World fails as a piece of fiction, it offers sobering insight into the white collar world. Revealed in all its stark vacuity is the antiseptic, materialistic world of budget sheets, computers and industry analyses that soaks up precious energy of today's young executives. Any humanist contemplating a business career should read The Real World before entering into what may later be regretted...