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Meany and his allies have followed parochial policies that turn off potential labor supporters. The AFL-CIO's dead-end support of the Viet Nam War is the standard example, but there are others. The union movement has lost touch with many rising forces in U.S. society. Feminists and civil rights leaders worry that seniority rules hinder the promotion of women and blacks; consumerists and ecologists find unions ranged against them out of fear that consumer-protection and environmental laws will cost workers jobs. Columbia University Industrial Relations Professor James Kuhn believes that to regain power, "labor needs the imagination...
...Ramapithecus, a small apelike fellow who existed some 12 million years ago; all we have are a few teeth and bones. Nor, despite the recently unearthed ribs and vertebrae, is there much more data about Australopithecus, who survived until about a million years ago, then turned down an evolutionary dead-end street and disappeared. But science has learned what happened to habilis. With a brain-half again as big as his neighbors', he not only adapted to his environment but evolved. Habilis passed his genes along to an improved model called erectus, who evolved into modern man, a creature...
...Geoghegan; 192 pages; $7.95). There's no time for tea in this sardonic unraveling of Establishmentarian rottenness. The sleuth is doughty Detective-Inspector Henry Peckover, a passable published poet who can no more aspirate his aitches than preserve his skull from duggery. Relegated by Scotland Yard to a dead-end fraud investigation, he links the murder of a May fair tart to a web of political, financial and sexual hanky-panky that encompasses a titled M.P., a police chief superintendent who turns drag queen by night, Middlesex pols and proles, bird hunters of all varieties and an Arab sheik...
...Ph.D. dissertation, Economist Finis R. Welch predicted that the pay of black workers would steadily fall further behind that of whites because the blacks would be trapped in dead-end jobs. But as a U.C.L.A. professor, he suspected that social change had outmoded his pessimism, arid he joined with James P. Smith, a Rand Corp. economist in a new study of census data. Last week they released their conclusions: between 1955 and 1975, black male workers increased their pay from 63.5% to 76.9% of the white average-and for women the black-white gap just about disappeared. In 1955 black...
...many postcollege world-class athletes in the U.S., finding the right kind of employment is itself an Olympian feat. Barred by the rules of amateurism from playing for pay, they have had to choose between dead-end jobs that allow time for training and competition, and accepting under-the-table payoffs from track-meet promoters and sporting-goods manufacturers. The payoffs go on, but now there is new hope for the amateur athletes-a jobs-for-jocks scheme devised by Howard Miller, 51, president of the Chicago-based Canteen Corp...