Word: white-collar
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...lost. Perhaps Coleman could have made his book a testimonial to the "whole man," but fortunately he is not so pompous. In fact, one of the man's few virtues is his lack of condescension. The journal is full of simple declarations of the equalness of blue-collar and white-collar man, and the trusting plain-faced manner in which Coleman voices this truth makes one believe he is not mouthing high-falutin' doctrine...
...Rather, any larger sense of the working man's plight is obfuscated by Coleman's personal search--for the lost muscles in his back, for the simple and direct language he knows he will find in the ditch. So he settles into comfortable generalizations, of the meaningless sophistication of white-collar workers who perform interesting tasks and the rude but honest manners of blue-collar workers who execute monotonous manual labor. Coleman chants vacuously at the conclusion that he set out to learn something but instead found a lost part of himself...
...Coleman certainly should reflect on the masses of workers who have never had the opportunity to exercise their minds for a couple of months in, say, the rigors of running a college. Naturally he ought to step down for a spell to give them all a chance to write White-Collar Journals and achieve some sense of regained self. But of course, as Coleman notes, this society supports him and not them, and if anyone wrote a White-Collar Journal he would be as indignant as the dog that used to chase its tail, before the tail turned...
When the redevelopment authority submitted a proposal to the city council last year that would have authorized construction of office and industrial buildings and high-rise apartments, citizen groups including the Cambridge Tenants' Organizing Committee protested, claiming that the plan would bring only high-rent housing and white-collar jobs to Cambridge...
Many differences still remain between blue-and white-collar feminists. Complains Margie Albert of Manhattan, president of District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America: "The women's groups have always espoused the 'Don't admit you can type philosophy.' And I don't appreciate them acting as if secretarial work is the lowest form of human endeavor. Sisterhood across class lines is a myth." Nor do many blue-collar women share the white-collar feminist's interest' in rising to high-level jobs. "We're laundry workers, X-ray technicians...