"White Collars"
| Title | "White Collars" |
| Year for Search | 1929 |
| Authors | Keller, David H[enry] M.D.(1880-1966) |
| Secondary Title | Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York) |
| Volume / Edition | 1.3 |
| Pagination | 380-85, 428 |
| Date Published | Summer 1929 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Dystopia in which the educational system produces too many professional people for the positions available, rather like India today, and they, refusing to take readily available blue-collar jobs, live in ghettos and starve. A bill is passed forcing them to work at the well-paying blue-collar jobs, and they all, but one family, adjust rapidly. The story has a sexist ending in that a young plumber kidnaps the daughter of the family trying to leave. She has turned him down many times but is instantly convinced to marry him on seeing the nice kitchen she, a lawyer, will have. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in his The Threat of the Robot and Other Nightmarish Stories with an introduction by Gene Christie (Normal, IL:. Black Dog Books, 2012), 66-77. |
| Holding Institutions | Merril |
| Author Note | (1880-1966) |
| Full Text | 1929 Keller, David H[enry], M.D. (1880-1966). “White Collars.” Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York) 1.3 (Summer 1929): 380-85, 428. Rpt. in his The Threat of the Robot and Other Nightmarish Stories with an introduction by Gene Christie (Normal, IL: Black Dog Books, 2012), 66-77. Merril, PSt Dystopia in which the educational system produces too many professional people for the positions available, rather like India today, and they, refusing to take readily available blue-collar jobs, live in ghettos and starve. A bill is passed forcing them to work at the well-paying blue-collar jobs, and they all, but one family, adjust rapidly. The story has a sexist ending in that a young plumber kidnaps the daughter of the family trying to leave. She has turned him down many times but is instantly convinced to marry him on seeing the nice kitchen she, a lawyer, will have. |
