Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many Hats. "All the things we've tried to help the cities with aren't working out very well, are they?" asks Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 40, a former Assistant Secretary of Labor and currently the most controversial of urban-affairs analysts. The question may sound over jaunty, but in fact it reflects the chief preoccupation of Pat Moynihan's life and the central domestic issue, one that is increasingly engaging the nation's intellectual community...
...Negro Family. It is a problem that deeply fascinates the author of the still controversial "Moynihan Report" on the Negro family. Reading the Washington Post one day in 1963, Moynihan, then special assistant to the Secretary of Labor, was drawn to a three-inch story: 50% of the young men who had recently been called for armed forces preinduction tests had failed either the physical or mental examinations. Moynihan decided to follow the well-known statistic to its source...
Slow & Painful. A regular contributor to magazines-one of his articles was a major critique of automobile safety, which inspired one of his Labor Department coworkers, Ralph Nader-Moynihan wrote a piece on Democratic politics that attracted Sociologist Nathan Glazer, who asked him to write a chapter on the Irish for a book on New York's ethnic groups, Beyond the Melting Pot. With the same careful eye that he was later to focus on the Ne gro family, Moynihan surveyed his own brethren, and found that Irish progress in America by most standards has been slow and painful...
...Certain Disquietude. Major labor contracts, covering 3,100,000 workers, expire in the U.S. this year (the figure was only 980,000 in 1966), and the biggest wave of strikes since 1959 seems only too likely. Not surprisingly, most labor leaders share Reuther's belief that workers deserve a bigger slice of last year's record corporate profits. Few major contracts expired in 1966, however, and corporate profits are off this year. As University of Chicago Labor Specialist Arnold R. Weber puts it, "Now that the unions are able to get to the bargaining table, the pickings...
...Wall. A new wave of walkouts in the fall could weaken the economy just when there was widespread hope for a vigorous upturn. On the other side of the coin, lavish labor settlements, coming on top of undiminished spending for the Viet Nam war, would surely add to the dangers of inflation...