Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Changing demographics also had their effect. More and more minorities have moved into East Cambridge, and they apparently tilted towards Vellucci, helping throw at least two wards of that neighborhood to him. More white collar liberals have moved into parts of traditionally blue collar North Cambridge, Bachrach, who lost that part of his district in 1980, took it solidly this time around...
...because of shifting employment patterns. I don't see them disappearing from the industries that they have dominated, though some of those industries may disappear." David Lewis, a professor of business history at the University of Michigan, supports that view. Says he: "The prognosis is not good. Blue-collar workers have moved to the suburbs and lost interest, and unions have never found the key to organizing white-collar workers...
Even so, the shared misery of economic hard times does not always lead to better management-worker relations. In the early '70s, General Motors' Lordstown, Ohio, assembly plant was the leading example of "blue-collar blues," a malady caused by repetitive, dehumanizing assembly-line work. Today Lordstown workers are still angry because of the wage and benefit concessions they have been forced to accept. Says Bill Bowers, vice president of United Auto Workers Local 1112: "The people in this country expected us to do something to help the auto industry and the consumer. But the contract that...
...swing voters in that coalition were blue-collar workers who strayed from the Democratic fold. To them, economic recovery, by whatever means, is far more important than keeping the ideological faith. "If this deficit keeps ballooning," says a presidential adviser, "the political losses we will suffer will make the political losses from raising taxes look like nothing." In order to fend off wholesale electoral trouble, Reagan will keep pushing for new taxes in an effort to reduce deficits and steady the economy. He will have to endure right-wing carping, but political logic is with him. Says a White House...
...products really do not differ from one another all that much in taste or ingredients. Most breweries focus mainly on the same group of customers, that 20% of American beer drinkers who consume eight out of every ten cans sold. These prime customers are both white-and blue-collar workingmen between the ages of 21 and 40, many of whom drink several cans a day, the prototypical Joe Six-Pack...