Word: white-collar
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True to his words, Dutch Shea, Jr. focuses on several provocative characters entangled in a malevolent fate. The Travel's namesake, an assimilated Irish Catholic detective, finds himself constantly having to defend arsonists and murderers, partially because his lather, also a lawyer, committed suicide after being convicted of a white-collar crime. Slowly sinking in a quagmire of guilt and despair. She a still finds time to draw some colorful characters into his world...
...either outright wish fulfillment or a portrait of a whole other America, featuring people far more buoyant and bullish than would seem possible in the midst of a deepening recession. In Pittsburgh Kahn found unemployment, to be sure, but also a labor force with half again as many white-collar workers as blue, an economic fact of life that has helped to cushion the deepening industry-wide slump in steel orders. In Houston (". . . the only place on earth where I have heard 'trillion' used in casual conversation ...") he learned that there are more branches of foreign banks than...
Marks assailed "a President and his cronies whose belief in Hooverism has blinded them to the wretchedness and to the suffering they are inflicting." He ticked off those whom he considers the victims of Reaganomics, including "the sick, the poor, the handicapped, the blue-collar and white-collar workers, the small business person, the black community, women of all economic and social backgrounds, men and women who desperately need job training, families that deserve and desire the right to send their children to college; in fact, anyone and everyone, other than those who have been fortunate enough to insulate themselves...
...does so unconsciously--as his overinflated sense of self-importance suggests. Journey of the Fifth Horse thus seems a treatment of modern man's alienation from his work. But because the landowing Chulkaturin also suffers from alienation, the play is more than a fable about the unsatisfied white-collar worker. Zoditch and Chulkaturin and the fifth horse represent Everyman, harnessed without reason to a life which he does not understand and cannot hope to change...
...were several unresolved issues. GM and the union could not agree on job guarantees for production workers or on how to limit the shift of auto-parts production to cheaper, nonunion manufacturers. There was also disagreement on how to match benefit cuts of blue-collar workers with those of white-collar employees...