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Subject: «smokestack» industries ; «service» industries ;high-tech and white-collar workers Some of the reasons for this decline include changes in the nature of American industry: «smokestack» industries are being replaced with «service» industries where high-tech and white-collar workers are typically more resistant to joining labor unions; in recent years , unions have made «give backs» to management and have not been gaining the significant wage increases of the 1960s and 1970s; and older, less efficient U.S. industries are being replaced by more efficient, lower cost foreign competition.
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