Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terrible truth, which few can face squarely, is that the skills that supported these men and women so well for so many years have lost their value in the marketplace. Management Expert Peter Drucker suggests that blue-collar manufacturing is going the way of agriculture in the postwar period: employment will decline markedly even if output rises. By the year 2005, Drucker figures, only 5% to 10% of the work force will be involved in manufacturing, compared with 20% today. That conclusion, striking as it is, is not very controversial. Last week, in a "technical memorandum" that was presented...
After being introduced to my new colleagues I asked what I should do on my first day. Nothing, I was told A nation-wide general strike had been called, so there was so business to be done. My new acquaintances were mostly white collar workers so the had shown up for work an way. We hung around a bit, got to know each other a little, and soon decided we were hungry...
...decades every contract signed by the major steel producers and the United Steelworkers brought higher wages and benefits for the people in the grimy business of running America's blast furnaces and rolling mills. In time steelworkers became the highest-paid blue-collar employees in the U.S. In January their average hourly pay ran at $14.39, vs. $13.07 for auto workers and $8.71 for manufacturing workers generally...
...years of naval service, I have never seen a naval officer with his coat collar turned up like a journalist's. Pug also should have been wearing a white silk scarf. Otherwise it was a nice shot of Mitchum...
...advocates a partnership between business and Government to help revitalize American industry, and speaks of the needier tougher trade policies. "I'd press our nation to compete again," he says. So far Mondale has concentrated on each of the Democrats' traditional constituencies: organized labor, blacks, Jews, blue-collar workers, women and teachers. He appealed to many of them last week in thoroughly Democratic Chicago. "This Administration's position on women is as wrong as it can possibly be," he told a luncheon of professional women. To a group of senior citizens in a Jewish neighborhood, he praised...