Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conviction. "It was he who invented it." In the Congo, paternalism means bread but no votes, good government but no opposition; the best Negro housing in Africa but no real freedom of movement. "The emphasis is on economics," says Governor Pétillon. "The fascination of becoming a skilled worker handling precision machinery drives out of the Negro's mind the need for politics...
...there will be 69 million jobs, 7.5 million more than in 1950. A drop of 2.3 hours in the non-farm workweek will put the average worker on a 36.5-hour week, but his productivity, while it can hardly match the last decade's 47% rise, is expected to be up 25%. National income per man-hour worked will be $2.68 (v. last year...
...primary resource; without it all other resources would be economically nonexistent . . . Technological progress during the past century, especially since 1900, appears to have been more rapid in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world." Looking ahead, Dewhurst makes a vivid prediction: in the year 2050 a worker will produce in one seven-hour day what takes today's man a 40-hour week...
...Liverpool-as salty as its docks, as fierce as its wind, as biting as its rain. Bessie was born 55 years ago in its working-class district, where one cold-water tap in the courtyard often served a whole block of houses. Her mother was a Labor Party worker and a social worker, ladling out soup from "St. George's Plateau (atop the steps of a Liverpool concert hall), and one of Bessie's earliest memories is the look on hungry faces when the soup ran out. When she went to her first job at 15, she remembers...
Nevertheless, in everyone from businessmen clear down to the lowliest worker, there is a new air of confidence and optimism. Says Innocenti's General Manager Giuseppe Lauro: "After all these years of hard work, things seem to be ripening all at once. We have, begun at last to pluck the fruits of our labors...