Word: white-collar
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...heavy-employment industries as automaking and steel, automation and technological improvements permit more production with fewer men. Other industries, such as mining, transportation and textiles, which once employed great numbers of workers, have fallen into a relentless, long-term decline. Employment has been growing in the service trades, in white-collar jobs, in finance, insurance, real estate and state and local government. But many who lost out in the factory have been unable or unwilling to make the switchover. The main groups caught in this "hard core" unemployment...
Anxiety drives them to sedatives, therapy, and unseemly panting after the diploma that wins white-collar status. "The type who browses intelligently is unknown here," complains one don. "If you suggest that they make up their own minds," says Novelist Amis, "they feel they're being cheated. We are here to tell them what to think, not to show them how to think, as at Oxbridge...
...obstacle to all training programs is the prevailing view among parents that a blue-collar technician has a less desirable job than a white-collar worker, even if he earns more money. Industry has done little to counteract this...
...Since last October, cadres (party functionaries) and white-collar workers by the tens of millions have found themselves reassigned to work on the land. Picks and shovels on their shoulders, professors lead their students, officers their men, bureaucrats their bookkeepers-all of them on the march to lend a hand, physically, on the 'production front...
...have pushed its inventory of unsold cars to 185,000, about a 100-day supply when 30 to 45 days is normal. To curb this buildup, Chrysler has laid off 10,000 of its 70,000 hourly workers. In addition, 8,000 of the company's 30,000 white-collar workers are being fired, a permanent cut aimed at trimming as much as $60 million in salaries. Another cost-cutter: selling the company's three remaining executive planes...