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...area's white-collar residents are being laid off at levels not seen since the 1930s; 20,000 have been sidelined at Chrysler alone. Charles Beaudet, 52, a $22,000-a-year sculptural designer for Chrysler, was furloughed just before Christmas. He supports his wife and five children on his SUB checks, but he has cut out the monthly case of wine, the symphony concerts and other civilized frills. Beaudet worries that his self-respect is going too. "It hurts," he says, describing the experience of standing in an unemployment line. "It's demoralizing." Bankruptcy declarations rose...
...result of the national drive for greater energy independence, the Permian Basin is booming again. Now rising above the West Texas city of Midland (pop. 63,000), which serves as the white-collar headquarters town for the oil companies operating in the area, are a multimillion-dollar 14-story office tower and that symbol of a successful city, a Hilton hotel. A half-hour's drive away is Midland's twin city, Odessa, a blue-collar town built around a sprawl of refineries and oil-well service and supply firms. There the boom is reflected...
SINCE MOST WHITE male workers probably don't care all that much about affirmative action, and a lot of them even accept journalists' assurances that new opportunities for women and blacks can only come at their expense, that leaves blacks, some women and the other wing of affirmative action's other supporters. It's probably a lot of not-so-well-off teachers, students, and other white-collar workers, and some younger professional people--a Village Voice readership instead of a New York magazine one, the kind of people who'd have been in the radical, non-socialist or moderately...
Some business interests support this kind of action (or inaction). A recession can be useful for them in slowing down inflation and in All workers 6.5 per cent Adult men 4.6 per cent Adult women 6.6 per cent Teenagers 17.3 per cent White 5.8 per cent Non-white 11.7 per cent Blue-collar 8.2 per cent White-collar 3.7 per cent
...White-collar employees are finding the current recession particularly unnerving, because companies are no longer as reluctant as they once were to furlough them. Chrysler has laid off 20,000 clerks, accountants and lower-level managers; Sears has let more than 200 executives and middle-management workers go in the past several weeks. Many big corporate employers have quietly frozen new hiring and are trying to whittle their staffs through attrition. At the same tune, employees are less eager to reach for early retirement at a tune of soaring inflation. The Chicago office of the Booz Allen executive recruiting firm...