Volume 20, Number 1 · February 8, 1973
Blue Collar Blues
By Murray Kempton
Where Have All the Robots Gone?: Worker Dissatisfaction in the 70s
by Harold L. Sheppard, by Neal Q. Herrick
Free Press, 222 pp., $7.95
The Hidden Injuries of Class
by Richard Sennett, by Jonathan Cobb
Knopf, 276 pp., $6.95
The Company and the Union: The "Civilized Relationship" of the General Motors Corporation and the United Auto Workers
by William Serrin
Knopf, 352 pp., $7.95
Bitter Wages: Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on Disease and Injury on the Job
by Joseph A. Page, by Mary-Win O'Brien
Grossman, 336 pp., $7.95
Work in America: Report of a Special Task Force to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
HEW mimeographed print, 211 pp.
I was commissioned once to assess Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo's governance of the Dominican Republic. In the course of my inquiries, his minister of labor talked to me. He sat at a desk surrounded by the forty-odd volumes that set forth the Dominican Republic's social welfare decrees, known, of course, as the 'code Trujillo.' 'Before Trujillo,' he said, 'there was just one page of laws dealing with labor. It was left behind by your Marines. Now'—he waved at the shelves—'there is all this.'
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