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blue-collar
Another drawback was that day care proved to be used more by whitecollar than blue-collar groups.
All the regional funds had combined into a national health fund for blue-collar workers.
There were, however, some differences between white-collar and blue-collar employees.
It initially covered only blue-collar workers, representing only 3% of the population.
The unusual feature of this scheme was that blue-collar workers in small firms were covered at the same time as large-firm employees.
Instead, strikes remained local and sectional, rarely involving blue-collar workers, and often taking physical forms.
Until recently, white-collar have been more eager than blue-collar groups to live according to the two-earner model with the children in day-care centres.
Companies with lower average wages and a higher percentage of unskilled blue-collar workers might participate more in order to gain cheap labour.
A hallmark of a post-industrial society is the prevalence of the white-collar, service sector rather than the blue-collar, industrial sector in its economy.
In 1973 there were only three health insurance funds for blue-collar workers, down from the 73 existing in 1903.
Others remained committed to the provision of low-cost benefits to a blue-collar clientele, and continued to be known as hospital contributory schemes.
On the other hand, blue-collar cannot be inflected for number like a noun or be used as a prepositional phrase complement.
White-collar workers tended to be twice as satisfied as blue-collar workers (40per cent and 2 0 per cent respectively).
The source of income of the breadwinner in such households would usually be wage-work, either in a blue-collar or a white-collar occupation.
When we restricted the analysis to people with blue-collar occupations, a similar pattern emerged.
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