Word: white-collar
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Last week Ford Motor Co., which is expected to lose $1 billion on domestic car operations in 1980, announced the permanent closing of its assembly plant in Mahwah, N.J., shut down smaller operations in Dearborn, Mich., and Windsor, Ont, and cut 15,000 blue-and white-collar jobs. Time may be running short for Chrysler. Sales are off 26% from 1979's already depressed levels, and the company is making a herculean cost-cutting and consolidation effort in order to qualify for $1.5 billion in federal guaranteed loans. Even mighty General Motors last week put 12,000 more workers...
...people, when you talk about these kinds of experiments, have a feeling that they might be a fine idea for things like the assembly line and blue-collar factories where work is most clearly dehumanizing, but they have an image of white-collar work as more fulfilling. They feel that applications of these developments to white-collar setting is unnecessary because the work is already intrinsically rewarding...
...Well, I think that there is a lot of white-collar work that is obviously dehumanizing--like clerical work or in the insurance office. A lot of factory principles pertain there: the use of standards and the structure of the organization, the use of technology and electronic data processing...
...Angelo Errichetti. The undercover agents now sought guidance from their superiors on whether to follow Weinberg's leads into the complex field of political corruption. Neil Welch, the FBI's top man in New York City, readily approved. He had long wanted to press harder against white-collar crime. But Welch also needed higher approval, first from Francis M. ("Bud") Mullen Jr., a Washington superior in charge of all FBI investigations into white-collar and organized crime. Finally, Director Webster's approval was needed...
...moved away from the routine investigations of bank robbery and car theft that were popular under J. Edgar Hoover, it has plunged into the far more complex world of organized and white-collar crime and corrupt politicians. Evidence is much harder to obtain, cases that will stand up in court are much harder to build. So the agency has increasingly resorted to stings to produce the strongest possible proof of a crime. But police infiltration of the criminal world has always been a touchy area. Undercover agents often necessarily become parties to the commission of crime; so do paid informants...