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...appeal to the middle-class, blue collar workers of Reagan's conservative economic policies was just as successful as their pitch to white-collar counterparts and businessmen. In fact, Reagan's campaign strategy involved side-stepping union leadership, whose political alliances could only remain with the Democrats, and wooing the rank-and-file with appeals to patriotism and traditional values. That a large number of workers accepted a candidate aggressively opposed to organized labor is not difficult to understand. An active interest in bread-and-butter labor issues naturally wanes with the achievement of middle-class status and solidly entrenched...
...Star's plight was similar to that of other big-city evening papers, which lost about 20% of their circulation between 1965 and 1979. The flight of city dwellers to the suburbs and the gradual postwar shift from a blue-collar to a white-collar work force have created an audience predisposed to morning papers. Today's reader goes to work later and has less time for reading a newspaper at the end of the day. Although television coverage offers less depth, it can provide much fresher news: many evening papers go to press before midday so that...
...skilled labor force is eroding on two fronts. Young people going to work are choosing, or being steered into, white-collar jobs outside of factories. At the same time, experienced journeymen, many of whom learned their trades during World War II, are retiring at a rapid rate. The U.S. Labor Department estimates that there will be an average of 31,000 new skilled labor openings for machinists and machine operators annually until 1990. But only 2,300 new workers qualify for such jobs each year...
...such jobs require more schooling than many white-collar professions. To become a journeyman diemaker, an apprentice must complete 8,000 hours, or four years, of shop work, practicing on-the-job skills for an average of just $4 an hour. In addition, the apprentice must also finish 600 hours of course work in a vocational school or an in-house training program. As skills improve, earnings pull ahead. In many shops a full-fledged diemaker can make as much as $40,000 yearly, with overtime. Such jobs in the U.S. rank seventh in lifetime earnings, behind insurance and real...
...subcompact, it is cooperating with France's Peugeot in the joint design and construction of a new model. By closing plants and laying off workers, Chrysler has also slashed its fixed spending and operating costs by another $2 billion. It has closed eight plants, laid off 22,000 white-collar workers and put thousands of hourly workers on indefinite layoff...