Word: whitecollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Office workers, who sit at desks in pleasant buildings, may stay on in larger numbers, but not all that much larger. Less than 15% of Du Pont's employees, both blue-collar and whitecollar, elect to keep working until they reach 65. Says Employee Benefits Manager Leonard J. Bardsley: "This trend continued through 1978 even when they knew of the change in the law." Pitney-Bowes, Inc., abolished mandatory retirement last April 1. Since then, 105 of its workers have retired on or before their 65th birthday, and only ten have chosen to keep working more than...
Wilson's Essay "Crime and Punishment" [April 26] is typical of the shallow analysis and rhetoric so popular with armchair criminologists. Those crimes most damaging to our society, corporate, whitecollar, governmental and organized crimes, are conveniently ignored. The real criminals are not, as Wilson would have us believe, burglars, thieves, or those who have otherwise developed "deformed personalities." The real criminals are those who have manipulated the growing interpenetration of the political and economic spheres of our society...
...guideline is 5.5% annually, but that does not necessarily apply to every paycheck. The rule that most directly affects the majority of low-or medium-paid workers-including millions of nonunionized whitecollar, clerical and semiprofessional employees-is that the total, or aggregate wage increase must be held to 5.5% within each "employee unit." Such a unit could be a department, a whole company, or a labor union that in the past has been grouped together in the same wage adjustment. Thus the boss is perfectly free to grant 10% pay raises to secretaries and only 1% increases to cleaning women...