Word: white-collar
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...surprised to read [March 5] of the addition of Cecil Stoughton to the ranks of the white-collar unemployed. It would have been more appropriate for the President to keep him around as evidence that the Nixon economic game plan is working by showing that you can still buy a coat for $19.95, eyen if you do have to go to Canada...
...yuan a month ($39.50), and his wife earns an identical amount in a nearby cotton mill. Their rent, however, is under 10 yuan per month for bedroom, living room, kitchen alcove and toilet-all unheated. Twenty-five years ago, such accommodations were beyond the reach of anyone but white-collar or professional workers...
...angry scramble with authorities that led to the arrest of ten people by federal agents. The catchall charge-conspiracy, along with various related offenses -was not unprecedented either. But it was conspiracy with a difference. Far from being yippies or antiwar militants, the defendants were middleaged, middle-class white-collar citizens, and the cause of their anger was the Internal Revenue Service. In December, the San Diego Ten, as they would doubtless prefer not to be known, were duly tried and convicted for their part in a demonstration against Government policy. Last week, as they appeared for sentencing, some...
...French discontent evidently runs far deeper. Despite the evidence of economic progress, prosperity has not sufficiently filtered down to many blue-and white-collar workers and professionals, as well as elderly people living on wretched pensions. Nearly two-thirds of the country's 15 million workers earn less than $300 a month, while more than 2.5 million retired men and women subsist on a social security pension of $2.40 a day. Unemployment is increasing, the housing shortage has worsened for low-income families, and prices have risen 13% in the past two years. For millions, such gross inequalities seem...
Lately, Umberto has been surprising Italy's staid business establishment with regularity. Not long after taking over as Fiat's sole general manager, he put 5,000 Fiat white-collar workers on "flextime," under which they can choose their own working hours within certain broad limits. Last fall rocked the conservative leadership of Confindustria, an association of the nation's private manufacturers, by proposing that small firms be better represented in the group and that Italian industry in general establish better relations with workers. "La scossa Agnelli" (the Agnelli shock), Italian newspapers called the proposal. After...