Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is readily apparent from the census results is that the Cambridge of 1980 is vastly different from that of 1970. The process of "development"--or "gentrification," depending on the point of view is slowly creeping across the city. Blue-collar workers have slipped below 20 percent of the work force of a city once dominated by manufacturing. At the same time, single person and nonfamily households now outnumber family homes by more than 4000. Ten years ago, families owned 57 percent of all houses: today they control 45 percent. The change has come as upwardly mobile families are seeking...
...combination indicates "the demise of the neighborhoods" explains Martin C. Boster, former chairman of the city Democratic committee "If you go around to the neighborhoods where there used to be blue collar workers and people of color, they're not there anymore," adds City Councilor Saundra Graham...
Heavy industries such as autos, steel, rubber and shipbuilding that were once synonymous with American industrial might have rapidly declined. Some 211,000 autoworkers, or 19% of the industry's blue-collar work force, are on indefinite layoff. In the steel industry, which is operating at only 42% of capacity, 119,000 workers are idle...
Those most directly affected by this economic transformation are the displaced blue-collar workers. They will be hard-pressed to find jobs that even remotely resemble the $25,000-a-year slots in which they manned assembly lines and blast furnaces. The Department of Labor projects that the largest numbers of job openings will be in such low-paying categories as secretaries, nurses' aides, janitors, sales clerks and cashiers (see table). Although the total numbers are not as large, the fastest percentage growth will come in highly technical professions like computer programming and software writing. Those are not skills...
...spats and waistcoat, the shockable aunts, the frosty butler belong in a diorama at the Museum of Natural History, not onstage. Yet here they are, spouting the ancient lines: "He looks as if he'd been poured into his suit and forgotten to say when." "From the collar upward he stands alone." The japes about class and custom once seemed spun of gossamer; now they appear to be composed of cobwebs. As for the champagne merriment, it seems to have been uncorked since...