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...Others are dropouts from society, finding it easier to lead a marginal day-today existence or to hustle odd jobs for unreported cash as part of the so-called underground economy. Although most discouraged workers claim they are willing to take any job, even the lowest paid and most menial, some are holdouts who would rather stay unemployed than accept something they regard as beneath their skills and dignity...
...deflects attention from its flaws. The dead man is Technical Sergeant Vernon C. Waters (Adolph Caesar), a regular Army, "all Army" noncom who fought in World War I. The time is 1944; the place Fort Neal, La. Apart from its white officers, this is a black outfit consigned to menial and, sometimes, degrading tasks...
...play opens when he returns home one evening, unable to complete his usual rounds of Boston buyers. Immediately, Miller brings into focus the imminent collapse of Willy's life. Willy's olders son, Biff, played by Michael Sacks, has returned home unemployed after drifting through many menial jobs and several years on low wages on a ranch out West. "Biff is magnificent." Willy protests to himself, adding, "He's such a great saiesman. When is he going to realize it and settle down in business?" But, Biff, 34 years old, cannot communicate with his father, for Willy seems to understand...
...wages at the lower end of the economic ladder. Says Harold Washington, a black Congressman from Chicago: "The mere presence of a large number of illegal aliens is depressing wages generally, and forcing unskilled blacks to take dirtier, lower-paying jobs." In most industries that employ large numbers of menial workers, labor law violations can be found. Some of the worst offenders...
...problems. Detroit's Wade Cook, 48, a former railroad employee with 16 years of management experience, has sent scores of resumes to the Sunbelt without result. The difficulty, explains University of Houston Sociologist William Simon, is that the Texas economy is highly technical at the upper end and menial at the lower end, without much in between. The newcomers, he says, "cannot articulate with our economy. A lot of them are obsolete people from an obsolete environment, with obsolete skills...