Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...metaphor: for the first time they were free of regal decree and military repression, released from the specters of famine and caste. In fact, the importance of lineage had been eroding since the Middle Ages. Rising middle classes demanded recognition for performance, not tradition. The Industrial Revolution identified the worker, like his machinery, with the job. Voltaire crystallized the sentiments of the arrivistes: "Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors." His was a romantic ideal, however: only in America were immigrants truly unhooked from history. In his classic study The Uprooted, Oscar Handlin observed: "The immigrants could...
...Oshkosh, Wis., the son of a coffee vendor, Hine grew up working. "After grammar school in Wisconsin's 'Sawdust City,' " he recalled, "my education was transferred to the manual side of factory, store and bank. Here I lived behind the scenes in the life of the worker." But in 1901 he moved to New York and taught photography-the rudiments of the craft-to students at a progressive academy called the Ethical Culture School, and there the first of Hine's great subjects appeared to him: Ellis Island. Over a period of five years...
...credit can be taken by parents no matter how rich; the old deduction dwindled for people with incomes of $35,000 or more, and stopped altogether at $44,600. The credit is available to people who could not claim the deduction: for example, couples consisting of one worker and one student or those who pay grandmothers or other relatives to do the baby-sitting-provided that the grandma does not live in the home, is actually paid for her services, and has Social Security taxes paid by her employer. These changes in total will save taxpayers $384 million a year...
...unemployment-the minimum wage law." The AFL-CIO is now campaigning to have the $2.30-an-hour pay floor raised to $3.00. Such a step could well price even greater numbers of unskilled young people out of the job market and into the street. Says a Florida social worker who tries to find work for teen-agers from a poverty-ridden area north of Miami, "It's bad enough now, but if the floor goes up again, the kids simply won't ever get hired...
...Hill for NBC all week and then flies to New York to anchor the Sunday night news, which she took over last summer. It is a demanding regimen, but it does not bother Mackin: "People who do what we do are fairly driven people. I'm a compulsive worker." Mackin worked her way from,her home-town Baltimore News American to become in 1972 the first woman network television floor reporter at a national political convention. Though some viewers find her taut and aloof on-camera, off-camera acquaintances insist she is quite the opposite. "I have a small...