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...quarter, 2,656 were hired as operators, filling 17% of the openings (the company's goal was 10%). Some possible explanations: many men as well as women may prefer the relative comfort of tedious indoor work to the rigors of outside jobs, and many men may still consider white-collar work more socially prestigious than better-paying blue-collar jobs...
Small businessmen, farmers and white-collar workers, clinging to status pretensions that threatened to evaporate in the burning sun of an egalitarian revolution, enlisted in Hitler's and Mussolini's armies, wielding banners inscribed 'honor and duty,' thrusting aside the old conservative classes in their eagerness to dismember the Left...
...Cambridge City Council Monday night unanimously ordered the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority (CRA) to revise its plans for developing Kendall Square to place a higher priority on developing blue-collar and non-professional white-collar jobs...
...Graham said yesterday that this is a "weak excuse" because "the CRA was well able to design a complex providing both employment and expensive housing for white-collar professionals...
Furthermore, the Joint Subcommittee's inclusion of "non-professional white-collar jobs" in its definition of "blue-collar jobs" may allow the CRA to continue to recommend luxury housing, he said...