Word: dagenham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many economic analysts think the new union upsurge is a product of Britain's current prosperity. Since 1980 the British gross domestic product has risen by 19.8%, while company profits have surged. Says Ernie Velox, an assembly-line worker at Ford's 560-acre plant in Dagenham, England: "They're making major profits. Now we're asking for something...
...years in the office of one shrink or another, trying to come to terms with a childhood that was more than unhappy. His father was a railway electrician, his mother was a shorthand typist, and he grew up in a poor, row-house neighborhood in the London suburb of Dagenham. But poverty was not the problem: it was a clubfoot and a skinny, slightly shorter left leg, which sent him in and out of hospitals from the age of two weeks on. "Psychologically it was made harrowing by the fact that my parents felt guilty about it," he says. "That...