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Western industry long ago disproved Karl Marx's prediction that the workingman would become ever poorer in a capitalistic state. But it has yet to prove wrong his less well remembered forecast that workers would become progressively more alienated from their jobs. The young people now entering the factories present an opportunity for employers to end that alienation. Blue collar youngsters are as eager as the college students to become involved and to genuinely earn the pay and leisure that they seek. Essentially it is the task of management to give them that chance. As it is, the alienation...
...regain price stability and social peace, but it was by wielding that blunt weapon that labor won its largest gains in the past. It is ironic that blue collar workers are suspicious of today's social disruptions; labor often created the disturbances of yesteryear, and they helped the workingman to come a long way from the bad old days. As late as 1900, seven-year-old boys worked in the mines of Pennsylvania, and girls of six helped run the mills of the South. The regular work week ran as high as 84 hours, the pay from...
...spends most of his free time at home, tries to avoid thinking about the job when he is away from it and tends to have a close-knit family life, raising his children according to the strict, old rules. Assistant Labor Secretary Jerome Rosow points out that "the American workingman has lost relative class status with the growth of higher education. All blue collar workers, skilled or not, have been denigrated so badly, so harshly, that their jobs have become a last resort instead of decent, respected careers. Fathers hesitate?and even apologize?for their occupation instead of holding...
...community colleges would help working-class children rise beyond high school. Revenue sharing with the states could ease regressive local property taxes that often fall most heavily on blue collar families. In addition, the Government might update disability insurance laws. What Washington cannot do is give the workingman a renewed sense of pride...
...alley and a single movie theater (recent features: Blow-Up and Count Yorga, Vampire). In the 52 barrooms, where patrons like to gulp their 35? shots of whisky straight or with a 15? beer chaser, business is slow. Television has ended the historic role of the saloon as the workingman's club. Social life now revolves around the color tube at home...