Word: white-collar
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...Economy. It is a two-tiered economy marked by swift change and stark contrasts. While traditional smokestack industries are reeling from foreign competition, surging high-technology companies are leading the world in innovation. Though hundreds of thousands of blue-collar assembly-line workers have lost their livelihoods, white-collar engineers have had their pick of high-paying jobs. Last year 25,346 businesses went bankrupt, the most since the Great Depression, but 566,942 new companies opened their doors. Says Delaware Governor Pierre du Pont IV: "The transformation of our jobs, the movement of our people, the improvements...
...councillors and some neighborhood groups have stated that the present zoning will allow developers to concentrate on highly profitable office complexes, which would not provide job opportunities for the largely blue collar population. In addition, the housing constructed along with the offices will be liminted and accessible only to white-collar workers, serving to gentrify the Cambridgeport neighborhood...
Looking ahead, the computer industry sees pure gold. There are 83 million U.S. homes with TV sets, 54 million white-collar workers, 26 million professionals, 4 million small businesses. Computer salesmen are hungrily eyeing every one of them. Estimates for the number of personal computers in use by the end of the century run as high as 80 million. Then there are all the auxiliary industries: desks to hold computers, luggage to carry them, cleans...
...conflict is sharply limned in Black Life in Corporate America, a book that says integration in the upper levels of the white-collar work force is a sham. The coauthors, George Davis, a novelist, and Glegg Watson, who helps direct educational grants at Xerox Corp., explain that they might have paraphrased an old Jamaican-sect expression as a theme: "How can African man live at IBM without losing himself?" The answer: he cannot. They conclude that even where overt discrimination does not exist, black managers feel they must not only outperform their white competitors to get ahead, but also hide...
...particular threat to 40,000 former white-collar employees of the now outlawed Solidarity organization, such as printers, journalists and clerical staff, many of whom are still without jobs. It also threatens blue-collar workers like those at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, about 50 of whom were fired after an attempted strike last month. Many of these workers have also received "wolf tickets," or bad-conduct reports, making it hard for them to get new jobs...