Word: white-collar
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Citizens today can rattle off long lists of immoralities and immoralists. A committee sponsored by Catholic bishops in 1974 printed a typical roll call of contemporary villains: shoplifters, trashers, blue-collar time-clock cheaters, white-collar expense-account padders, tax evaders, political bribe takers, perjurers, economic exploiters, sexual revolutionists, the maritally unfaithful, pornographers, irresponsible mass communicators and those responsible for violent crime. But a mere listing does not do justice to the sense of disease and malaise that is in our hearts, the disappointment and disgust often felt between generations as moral standards are challenged or forgotten, the bewilderment...
...results, even while supplying corporations with needed educational labor, particularly in the oil, electrical and chemical industries. It has spawned "multiversities"--production-line colleges with lecture halls the size of Soldiers Field--and a new working class of students, mainly in the state schools and community colleges, whose future white-collar work strangely resembles what used to be considered demeaning manual labor. For students of the sixties and seventies, the lonely competitive present opens out on a future which is limited to powerless work in the lower or middle reaches of corporate or government hierarchy and a dull routine...
This has won Shanker a place in the AFL-CIO hierarchy. At 47, he is the youngest member of the AFL-CIO's 35-member executive council and is reputed to want to succeed President George Meany. "Usually, white-collar union leaders don't understand trade-unionism," says New York Labor Mediator Ted Kheel. "Shanker could have been the leader of the Steelworkers...
...pulse through the industrial process. The forces are tangible, yet methodical and metrical. A post-industrial world, because it primarily involves services-doctor with patient, teacher with student, Government official with petitioner, research team with experimental designer-is largely a game between persons. In the daily experience of a white-collar world, nature is excluded, things are excluded. The world is entirely a social world-intangible and capricious-in which individuals encounter and have to learn how to live with one another. Not, perhaps, an easy thing...
...have their defenders as a good time to be alive in. The man who argues their case most aggressively is Ben J. Wattenberg, who in his book The Real America draws his proofs from Ihe 1970 census. He cites statistics that show more than half the employed working in white-collar jobs, which are more pleasant and less demanding than the production line. Between 1950 and 1973, real income-even discounting for inflation-doubled, and from 1959 to 1969 the numbers of people officially listed as living in poverty were cut almost in half. For the first time, a majority...