Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really surprised. It's too bad, he's a good man to work for," Patricia A. Logan, an Eliot House worker, said yesterday...
...first reads, "Sons and daughters of intellectuals are getting into P.U. (Peking University) these days, and people from worker-peasant backgrounds can't get in." This is false. There is a tendency to have a high proportion of intellectuals' sons and daughters, just as there is at Harvard, but that does not at all eliminate the possibility that others from different backgrounds could gain attendance...
Grossman harbors a revisionist belief: technology retards productivity by ultimately robbing people of creativity. "The new office technology is a step backward. The worker gets bored as hell with what he is doing. A person used to sit down and type a letter and identify with it. Now we put it into one big damn machine, change a few words and produce 100 or 1,000 different letters. We have dehumanized a lot of things...
Jack Gallahue, president-elect of the Carmen's Union, said the problems in providing service are not caused by poor worker productivity...
...Sons and daughters of intellectuals are getting into P.U. these days and people from worker-peasant backgrounds can't get in," Wen explains. "Under Mao only worker-peasant kids got in, and lots of people, many intellectuals, were sent to the countryside as part of their education...