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Topics in the study by PBH's Committee for Economic Change include the effect of a working-class background on social life and the amount of term-time employment that work-study students feel they can handle, Cronin said...
Both men's fathers were working-class, and both ended their formal educations with technical high school, where they learned their first phrases in English. After graduation, each went to work for Matsushita-Yamashita in 1938, and Saito in 1970. Neither has ever worked for any other company...
...country of more than 4 million immigrants, mostly from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. More than half are unskilled laborers who work at construction and menial jobs long snubbed by French workers in prosperous times. As unemployment figures have soared, however, the French have come to resent the immigrants as job stealers. Adding to the resentment is the increased burden on education, and a popular feeling that crime rates among immigrants are high. Scrawled on brick walls throughout working-class regions outside Paris are the words ONE AND A HALF MILLION UNEMPLOYED IS ONE AND A HALF MILLION IMMIGRANTS TOO MANY...
...slender, brown-haired woman who wears her 41 years well. She arises early, shoos her three resident children (ages 17, 14 and ten) off to school. She orders one to remember to feed the dog, then bustles around a six-room frame house at 61 Monroe Street in a working-class area. The house is 64 years old and tax delinquent. After picking up a stray article of clothing here, dusting a table top there, Mary too is off-to work for the city of Hartford, which could throw her out of her home but won't. Mary Haley...
...enters a milieu, that of working-class life, that the movies often bypass. Thomas Hacklin lives in Buffalo and works for a tire factory. His car is dilapidated, and the house his wife and kids inhabit (he is divorced) is, at best, humble. Life for him is a few beers with the boys after work, a Saturday-night dance at the union hall and a little amateur baseball on Sunday afternoon. As director, Caan reveals the character with a sympathy that never patronizes. As an actor, he shows him as a good-natured fellow sustained by simple loyalties. Hacklin...