Word: white-collar
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...which installed a cafeteria and seven dining rooms in its Manhattan headquarters to give 2,400 employees bargain food at a sizable loss to itself every month. Operated by the Brass Rail Restaurant (on a cost-plus fee basis), the dining rooms are graded according to rank, with white-collar workers in one room, various executive echelons in the others. All rooms are air-conditioned, have piped-in music, and are pleasantly decorated (some in rosewood paneling, one with a pigskin leather floor). The kitchen is one of the world's largest all-electric cookeries, has a refrigerated room...
More important, the number of white-collar and other service employees per production worker is on the increase because more of them are needed to sell, distribute and service the greater outpouring of goods from the more efficient production lines. If all factory employees were counted in, said BLS, it would be necessary to subtract at least 1% from the manufacturing productivity gains in 1954, 1955 and 1956. This would all but wipe out any gain last year...
...Ring of Truth. However naive the cumbersome plots may seem to more sophisticated readers, confession editors argue that they faithfully reflect their audience's view of society. Unlike white-collar women, the Macfadden people explain, Wage-Town women "seem to see all men as more powerful figures: dominant, independent, sexually active and demanding, and, over all, as more mature than women." Says Editor Dorrance: "In the movies the taxi driver, the waitress, the drop-forge operator are comic relief. In our magazine they're the hero and heroine. We have no comic figures. Women, after all. have little...
...even made the hated farm collectivization program voluntary. For the first time nylon stockings and suede shoes are within reach of peasant girls and boys who, without being enthusiastic about Kadar, say they are now "almost as well off as they were under the rule of the Esterhazys." Among white-collar workers there is widespread unemployment. Piecework, introduced into the factories, is being used as a method of selective coercion to break what is left of the Workers' Councils...
...hundreds of other companies have set up their own brainstorm sessions for plant personnel, modified the idea for their own use. B. F. Goodrich Co., for example, likes to use nontechnical workers to help solve tough engineering problems. At its first "creative workshop" session eight months ago, a white-collar office worker sparked the answer to the problem of how to design a new tire machine; he had attacked the problem without any preconceived technical notion that it was impossible. Motorola's President Robert Galvin has set up a special "idea clinic" along much the same lines. Motorola...