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There is a growing understanding that the declining fortunes of the American worker over the past fifty years have had disastrous social costs that need correction. Simultaneously, we also see this hand-wringing over higher blue-collar pay, which is the most obvious remedy to the first problem. The contradiction speaks to professionals’ ongoing ambivalence over the merits of certain kinds of labor — an ambivalence that unites the professional class across partisan lines.

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