Word: white-collar
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...black workers were unemployed, and 4.5% of the white workers-a ratio of 1.8 to 1 instead of 2 to 1. One ironic reason for this improvement in the traditional mix is that blacks have not qualified for many skilled jobs in two of the industries that have been worst hurt in the economic slowdown: aerospace and munitions making. Instead, they have filled what have turned out to be quite recession-proof jobs in Government and service industries. Among all black workers, the percentage holding relatively secure white-collar jobs rose last year, from 26% to 28%, and the black...
Throwing the book at a Mafioso like Bill Bonanno for a white-collar crime is not new. But the dynastic story of how Bill Bonanno was reduced to using another man's credit card is absorbing-especially when reported and assembled by Gay Talese, the golden retriever of personalized journalism. As in The Kingdom and the Power, his best-selling chronicle of traditions and feuds at the New York Times, Talese drops more at the reader's feet than anyone knows what to do with. Honor Thy Father is a jumble of you-are-there re-reportage, underworld...
...White Majority is a collection of essays about the Mike Dombrowskis of America, the blue- and white-collar workers of the white lower middle class. Caught between poverty and affluence, they are the forgotten Americans patronized by Richard Nixon and George Wallace...
Faith in individualism is reflected in the lack of organization among the white majority. Only about 25 per cent of the work force is unionized, primarily in the blue-collar mass production sector. This degree of unionization is one of the lowest in the West. White-collar clerical, governmental and other service positions, filled primarily by the white majority and in an expanding sector of the economy, have resisted unionization almost totally. Although recent improvements in organization in this sector have been evidenced by wild-cat police and postal worker strikes, much work needs to be done...
...than a tribe with a large number of female members, and thus more prone to bring about the collapse of a corporation's tribal structure-namely, a strike. The longest and bitterest strikes involve the all-male tribes in mines, docks and factories, whereas strikes of female-dominated white-collar tribes are milder...