Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This tension comes partly from the changing economic situation of Wales, the decline of labor in coal-mining. Partly, too, change and newness come from the story's being told through the eyes of a small boy, to whom everything is new and personal. But the film's simultaneous fragility and dynamism work only because Ford's method so perfectly integrates these sources of tension. The way he stylizes his characters through their sentiments. That Ford manages to create a society from action so charged with individual character, so devoid of fixed habit, and that he manages t make...
...N.I.C.B. figures that U.S. production, which has increased an average 3% annually for the whole 20th century but rose to 4.5% during the '60s, will continue to grow by 4.5% a year during the '70s. One reason will be an unusually large rise in the labor force, the result of high birth rates in the late 1940s and 1950s. The labor force has been increasing by an average 1.2% a year, but in the 1970s it will jump 1.7% annually. In addition, continued investment in research and new plants should maintain productivity gains at the historic rate...
ORGANIZED labor long ago acquired a stranglehold over the $85 billion construction industry. That power has not only led to an astronomic rise in building wages but has also enabled unions to load the nation's largest industry with archaic and inefficient methods of operation. As a result, construction costs are climbing so swiftly that they are complicating Washington's struggles to increase the supply of housing and restrain inflation. Last week George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, challenged construction-union leaders to adopt reforms. His candor was greeted with boos, jeers and catcalls...
Opening Up. A considerable overhaul of labor policies molded by the Depression of the '30s is plainly in order. The most urgent need is for the building trades to open ranks and find room for more qualified young men, particularly Negro ghetto dwellers. Toward that end, union hiring halls might be abolished by law and discriminatory apprenticeship requirements sharply reduced. Regional bargaining, such as Ohio contractors have begun, should replace local negotiating...
...many ways, labor's naked show of arrogance toward George Romney reflects a confidence that there is no limit to a contractor's ability to pass on to consumers the soaring costs of construction. Sooner rather than later, the unions may find that they are on a collision course with an aroused public...