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...addition, the automakers have been trying to increase efficiency and productivity by replacing blue-collar workers with steel-collar ones-robots. Over the past three years, the Big Three automakers have installed 3,000 robots to handle welding, painting and other tasks previously done by U.A.W. members. As company executives like to quip, those new workers never take coffee breaks and always show up for work on Monday...
Certainly some of the industries in the part of the country now known as the Rust Bowl are salvageable; others may not be. But with no industrial policy designed to help these revisable industries and no government or industry commitment to worker retraining programs, blue collar men and women can't help but feel abandoned. Should this feeling become pervasive and nothing be done about the unfortunate human consequences of post-industrialism things might heat up here...
...there are about 368,000 people voting age in the area to the 1900 census. While liberals hold away in the rural suburbs in the district's left-leaning mid-section, President Reagan's appeal to the blue-collar, Catholic vote--which is centered in Lowell and Lawrence--worked here in 1980. Reagan carried the district 44 to 40 percent over former President Jimmy Carter, a margin of 11,000 votes and two percentage points better than the state total...
...attract crucial swing voters? Each side can fairly well count on its core constituency: for Mondale, minorities, the poor, organized labor; for Reagan, religious fundamentalists, the well-to-do and conservatives of every stripe. The real battle is for the middle, in particular two key groups: the blue-collar middle class and the smaller but influential core of young professionals sometimes called Yuppies...
Mondale pursues the blue-collar middle class with his charts and graphs showing that the rich directly benefited the most from the Reagan tax cuts. "We've got to force them to figure out who's on their side," says a Mondale aide. "They must ask the question: Who cares about people like you? Despite his statements, Mr. Reagan has provided them with no tax relief...