Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alignments have changed drastically since 1969, No longer is it black and white worker-hero tenants of Harvard Vs. evil landlord with expansionist, tendencies. In fact, the situation is so confused that publicity for the massive project has been stymied. Things have gotten so cloudy that a local politician, State Rep. Kevin Fitzgerald, came right out and admitted that he was "confused" about his position on the issue...
This rapid economic growth has exacted a high social cost. For one thing, it is based in part on very cheap labor. The average Korean worker receives a starting pay of about only $45 a month, and for that he has to work six days a week and often more than ten hours a day. There has also been a degree of profiteering by corrupt officials, though not an excessive amount compared with some other countries in Asia. In any case, despite these inequities, almost everybody has benefited from Korea's economic growth and, as TIME Correspondent William Stewart...
There are three principal targets of the decree: intellectuals; the reform-minded clergy, including many members of the country's Protestant-run, worker-oriented, urban industrial missions; and university students, who have played a traditionally tumultuous-and sometimes irresponsible-role in Korean politics. All three groups are kept under careful surveillance...
...Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, at least nine of the 63 graduates receiving the basic ministry degree are still looking for jobs, and those who have them, notes a placement worker, had to do "a great deal more footwork" than their predecessors. Adds the Rev. Harry Adams, associate dean at the Yale Divinity School: the days are gone when seminary seniors could sit back, "dream up their own things, and find someone to fund them...
...damages should be prevented. OSHA recommends that industry provide acoustical shielding and other engineering changes, and that it rotate work shifts to limit the number of hours an employee can work in a noisy area. Industry argues that a far easier and more economical method would be to require workers to wear earplugs or muffs. Labor retorts that "personal protection," as it is called, can be dangerous. Says the AFL-CIO's Sheldon W. Samuels: "There is a documented case of a man killed by a forklift because with his ear muffs on he did not hear the warning...