Word: white-collar
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...Working-class families whose heads of household earn between $14,000 and $20,000 a year, a traditionally Democratic group that has been hardest hit by unemployment and inflation. Though largely blue collar, this category includes a significant number of white-collar workers in both private industry and government...
...action promised by the President at the Detroit airport will do little to ease the immediate pain of an American auto depression that has left nearly 300,000 assembly-line workers and white-collar executives jobless. But Carter held out the prospect of something potentially more far reaching: a new "close-knit, permanent partnership" with automakers and their employees...
...tale in office construction is entirely different. Rather than being in a recessionary tail spin, commercial building has embarked on what may turn out to be its greatest boom ever. The burst of construction is being fed, in part, by the growth of white-collar jobs. During the past five years, the U.S. work force has risen dramatically to 106 million, vs. 95 million in 1975. Since much of the growth has taken place in the service and financial sectors, the demand for office space has outstripped the surplus supply created by the last big building bonanza...
...vignettes of just about everything one has read or heard of the period. The seemingly invincible princes of Wall Street get themselves wiped out overnight and take their suicidal plunges. Angry dairy farmers drown highways in milk. The haggard hour of the breadlines arrives as millions of blue-and white-collar workers find themselves obsolete. And, as the narrator puts it, "the habits of royalty spread into Brooklyn-the ancient noble question arose of how you paid the rent without money...
Over the past decade or so, P.D. James has become perhaps the best living writer of traditional mysteries. She has, of course, the necessary virtue of strong and resourceful plotting, but two far more remarkable qualities mark her fiction. One is a skill in writing about white-collar work. James is almost 60 now, and has spent her life in the British civil service. She understands the lower and middle levels of bureaucracy, and she takes the nurses, supervisors, administrators and the people who fetch their tea and coffee seriously. Though she often describes routine, her novels can be very...