Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Progressive Labor type cuts his hair, puts on a T-shirt, and goes to work in a factory so he can talk to the workers and educate them about their true plight. The fallacy of such an approach lies in the assumption that the process of converting someone else to one's own beliefs is a purely intellectual one. It is wrong to suppose that all one has to do is to present the worker with facts and figures and expect him to be "educated" into understanding that his real enemy is the capitalist establishment. It is a myth that...
...public administration institute will make a $25,000 study of Cambridge's manifold voluntary and public planning agencies during the coming year. The study will attempt to establish a clearcut division of labor and chain of command among the agencies...
During last week's labor crisis with the kitchen help at Radcliffe, for example, RUS beat SDS to printing a fact-sheet on the dispute. Some students found themselves looking to RUS for announcements of new developments, while last year they ignored the weekly RGA bulletins...
...economy where unemployment is running at 3.5% of the labor force (lowest since 1953) and wages are rising, higher costs for services are predictable. With plenty of work available, the unskilled are leaving low-paying jobs. The only recourse for the bosses is to offer more money without receiving higher productivity...
...matter how conservative the party may become. The Ripon Society can be "policy-oriented" because it represents almost no one: its members are, above all else, disinterested. There are no strong lobbies within the GOP for draft reform, or public housing, or aid to black businesses, or pro-labor legislation, simply because the groups which seek these kinds of programs--the young, the poor, the blacks--do so within the Democratic party. Therefore the motivations of Republicans who pursue these liberal programs are somewhat more amorphous than those of Democrats, and tend to have more to do with personal values...