Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that way not only at Armour. It's the same in other companies" said the other worker, a man getting on in years who had previously said nothing...
...future sociologist Martin Horwitz came up to us and said, "What worker or peasant could send his son to a private university...
...with the American press and at Harvard were, on his own admission, especially unpleasant in this regard--a fact which could not be admitted in Ogonek, but which could be avenged through the satirical use of Harvard as a symbol of the rich capitalist class which oppresses the common worker and "peasant" in the United States...
Wages Up. In the boom's early years, profits went mainly into the pockets of owners and managers, or back into expansion. Labor docilely withheld wage demands while industry rebuilt, and heeded the argument that costs had to be kept low to compete in international markets. Now workers and salaried white collar people are sharing in the benefits of the economic "miracle." Since 1948, wages have more than doubled, but they still average only $27 per week. The traditional 48-hr, work week is gone: Germans work 45 hours, are heading toward 40. To supplement family incomes, wives often...
...industry-wide basis, U.S. publishers pay their shop crews for 22 holidays. In various parts of the country these include Jefferson Davis Day, Pioneer Day, San Jacinto Day, and, on some papers, the worker's birthday...