Word: workers
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...Town Meetings and Worker's Control." Walzer deceptively renews the time-honored social-contract tradition to state his theory justifying socialism in modern America. Just as an entrepreneur cannot own a city or stake claim to its political governance, neither should he be entitled to corporate ownership; economic enterprise, like political, involves human relations and cooperation that cannot be possessed by any group of individuals. His argument here is intriguing, but not really convincing, and a bit myopic. He conveniently ignores the emergence of a modern managerial class and bureaucratic power--although he devotes a great deal of attention...
...MBTA worker at the Harvard station estimated that almost double the usual Saturday crowd of 10,000 will pass through the turnstiles today...
Despite some initial grumbling that the new machines would turn them into white-collar automatons, secretaries and clerical people usually welcome the appearance of a word processor or minicomputer console on their desks. Betty Mates, 31, a Citibank clerical worker for close to 13 years, now uses a Digital Equipment Corp. minicomputer in the bank's letters-of-credit department. Says she: "The department used to be chaos. One letter would get handled by four, five or six people. But with the new system, one person handles everything. I had no trouble adjusting. To me it was like...
Spending by businesses to modernize the office, however, has so far been extremely low. Each American farmer works with an average of $52,000 worth of such labor-saving machinery as tractors, combines and milking machines. The average American factory worker is supported by about $25,000 in capital investment in everything from computerized assembly lines to forklifts. Office workers, on the other hand, are aided by a paltry $2,000 in capital investment; that often amounts to little more than a telephone, a typewriter and a photocopy machine. Such offices will soon be as antique as those with stand...
...their unions and acting as adversaries to a staunch administration, union leaders at Harvard hold a thankless job. From all corners of the University, no matter what the specific union, isolated voices cry out for stronger action--strikes, grievances, unfair labor practice suits. The silent majority of Harvard's workers desires money in the pocket, job security and quiet. University officials no doubt relish this complacency and have an interest in fragmented unions. In the Medical Area, where District 65 of the United Auto Workers is attempting to organize clerical and technical personnel, the University will fight to the finish...