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...little touchy on this subject just now because my wife Mary is on strike, and has been for 14 weeks. She and some other white-collar workers at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City are striking to raise the base pay from $17,000 to $20,000 and retain medical and other insurance benefits. The strikers have the support of prominent artists (like Sol LeWitt) and filmmakers (like Steven Spielberg). But the MOMA brass remain firm. "We think we've given a generous offer, and we're competitive with others in the field," a spokeswoman says...
...Peters' forecast of an online, Web-based, white-collar workplace [VISIONS 21, May 22] was very chilling indeed. His feverish embrace of extreme individuality, free-market pursuit and constant self-improvement completely drowns out any inclination for people to think about others who are less fortunate. There is no real community, no downtime, no nurturing of the soul in Peters' business model--just workers hunched over a monitor, constantly "improving" themselves for the next level of business. Will embracing technology automatically make you a queen bee--or will you still be a drone? WILLIAM T. LAYHER Somerville, Mass...
...going to build the techno-toys and gadgets that will revolutionize our work and private lives? People laboring in sweatshops, I assume. And will the conditions of the white-collar sweatshops be as deplorable as their present-day counterparts? Yikes! CHRIS CASTLE Powell, Ohio...
They may spend as much as 60 hours a week creating lesson plans, teaching, advising students, grading, supervising extracurricular activities and meeting with colleagues and parents, yet teachers may earn 25% to 40% less than other white-collar professionals. While Frederica Capshaw, 52, is thrilled to be teaching math in a Bronx, N.Y., school district, she is aware of the price she paid for leaving American Express in 1992. "It has taken me eight years," she reports, "to catch up to the $52,000 I was making as a financial planner...
...deeply committed to her self-designed, do-it-from-anywhere-with-anybody "career" path. She is relieved, by the white-collar robots, of 95% of the drudge work...and is adding value by being on the tippy top of her intellectual game. Her only security is her personal commitment to constant growth and her global (virtual) rep for great work...