Word: classed
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...counterpart can be found on any picket line or at the wheel of many a New York City taxi. But his pleasures are real enough?whisky, the bowling alley, a gun collection?and so are his yearnings for a taste of life on the other side of the middle-class line. The blue collar worker wants to take a vacation in some far-off place, but usually cannot. He likes to go out to a restaurant, but seldom does. He spends most of his free time at home, tries to avoid thinking about the job when he is away from...
...asks: "What kind of a future does my kid have when you can't even get a job with a high school education?" In some blue collar neighborhoods, the high school dropout rate reaches 30%?the continuation of a cycle that locks the sons into the same working class as their fathers...
...eased. Then the blue collar worker's new-found power will assure him at least a place in line for federal aid. One high priority: child-care centers (in half of the blue collar families, wives also hold jobs). More federal aid to 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...
...sons are mainly interested in hopped-up "muscle" cars. Its daughters recently won the right to wear slacks to school, but none go without bras. "Most kids in school are the quiet type," says Mary Pat Nelson, 17, a blonde senior at South Milwaukee High. About half of her class will go on to technical schools or college. A few students recently have begun using hallucinogens and amphetamines, but School Superintendent Roger Schaus dismisses the drug problem as "minimal." Still, there has been one student demonstration. It occurred last June after the police raided the traditional post-graduation beer bust...
Part stereotype, part enigma, blue collar workers are little known to the rest of the nation. To examine what shapes their moods, habits and lifestyles, Correspondent Frank Merrick spent the better part of a week in the fairly well-off working-class community of South Milwaukee, Wis. (pop. 23,286). His report...