Word: white-collar
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Workers in the U.S. earn more than those doing the same job elsewhere, but there are some exceptions. The U.S. trails several European countries in some fields, especially white-collar ones. A receptionist in the U.S. earns $10,900, but his or her counterpart draws $17,920 in Switzerland, $11,439 in The Netherlands and $13,650 in Belgium. An army general in Australia gets $58,160, in West Germany $51,609, in Britain $64,018, but only...
...initiated a single case worthy of the front page of the major dailies. The major corporations now breathe easily, satisfied with the knowledge that this government won't spend its time busting trusts. And the dubious legal records of a number of Cabinet members make it questionable whether white-collar crime will receive the attention it recently did. As for attempts to foster equality, the Administration's willingness to confer highly beneficial tax-free status on racist institutions like Bob Jones University, serves as a fitting emblem of the government's mind...
...welfare resources, at the expense of other disadvantaged people" who have no powerful lobby to speak for them. That competition is difficult to mediate, she adds, because "most people now regard Social Security as a guarantee of middle-class income levels. The elderly lobby groups represent a white-collar view of the world...
...startling dimensions. No longer are the bulk of layoffs confined to just autos and housing, which have been in a three-year slump. Unemployment has spread to textiles, pulp and paper, steel, oil drilling and refining, mining and chemicals. Along with union members and the semiskilled, white-collar workers are losing their jobs. Edward Lieberman, 28, was shocked when he could not find work after being laid off from his $20,000-a-year job as a computer-software salesman in Los Angeles. Said he: "I've discovered that I need three years' experience not just a skill...
Toyo Kogyo's road back from disaster started with an appeal to its workers. President Yoshiki Yamasaki asked the company union for permission to shift nearly 5,000 blue-and white-collar workers into sales jobs. Engineers, designers and factory hands were soon manning Mazda showrooms at 110 locations around Japan. Said one union leader of the arrangement: "It was a matter of whether Toyo Kogyo would live or die. We would be jobless if it died." The unions also allowed attrition to slash Toyo's payroll from 37,000 employees in 1973 to 28,000 today...