Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...district clearly needs a fix of some kind. Once one of the state's fastest-growing areas, with an enviable mix of farming and light and heavy industry, it is suffering the worst battering since the Depression. Unemployment among workers, nearly 50% of them blue collar, is running above the state average of 12.5% in four of the district's five counties...
...arguments are complex, but, in short, MIT wants to hold onto its carte blance in the area. Various neighborhood groups say that because Cambridgeport is the last area in the city that can possibly be reserved for some type of blue collar manufacturing, they don't want to see MIT commit the entire area to white collar office space. The residents also argue that they have the right to request limits on the height and bulk of the new structures, because the buildings will affect the quality of life in their area...
Both sides have viable cases. MIT officials point out that the market is now calling for research and development and other white collar office uses. They correctly say that the old urban manufacturing firms of the Northeast have gone elsewhere, with no plans to return. They further argue that although commonly associated with white collar industry MIT itself employs more blue collar technicians than it does professors...
Developers generally favor building white collar office space in the area, while the residents would like to see blue collar interests such as manufacturing and low-income housing represented...
Committee members and other advocates of more restrictive zoning contend that developers have threatened the neighborhood's existence by bringing white collar firms and luxury housing into the blue collar neighborhoods of Cambridge...