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Word: sodal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Balfour also maintains, "We've got to make ordinary work more respectable." In the current issue of Sodal Policy, M.I.T.'s Herbert J. Gans contemplates very ordinary work indeed. He presents a whimsical scenario for a Dirty Work Movement, which raises the pay of toilet cleaners and other menial laborers to $20 an hour, creating a new economic elite. As a result, everyone wants to go into dirty work, and the D.W.M. sets up educational prerequisites and a licensing system to keep out clean workers. Hippies even start wearing white shirts to express their sympathies for the new underclass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Graduates and Jobs: A Grave New World | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

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