A natural travel writer, he mingles easily and listens well, drawing out confidences from factory workers, intellectuals and black marketeers.
But over a decade's time the regime's hold on power — and on the soldiers' loyalties — eroded as union workers, intellectuals, a pope and eventually even the security forces lost all confidence in a government that they viewed as illegitimate.
"The letters come from people in every walk of life - workers, intellectuals, farmers.
Nevertheless, China's economic reform has broadened such a concept and led to a new understanding of "the working class," which includes four social divisions: workers providing physical labor (blue collar workers), workers providing mental labor (white collar workers), intellectuals conducting educational or scientific work, and civil servants and managerial cadres in the public sector (Liu 2001).
Imputing a sentimentalized solidarity to groups risks diminishing what may well be knowledge-workers' intellectual, principled, or pragmatic motives to participate in a community and identify with it [ 12, 24, 36].
Creative occupations – an occupational category comprising knowledge-workers, intellectuals and artists – were growing to the point where almost a third of the US workforce could be regarded as "creative" and companies, cities and regions were bending over backwards to attract them.
We discussed a lot more, from options for laid-off auto workers to intellectual property protection.
He's a phenomenal worker," explained Alliance Data Vice President, Jim Pierce, who has hired a dozen workers with intellectual disabilities.
Though the exact language and details of the agreement are being kept secret by the Obama administration, summaries and descriptions indicate that it will affect tariffs, workers' wages, intellectual property, and environmental regulations in the US and 11 Asia-Pacific countries.
His says his overwhelming ambition has been to change the relationship between workers and intellectuals.
It united Russian-speakers and Ukrainian-speakers, workers and intellectuals, Ukrainians and Jews, parents and children, left and right.
