blue-collar

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white-collar
The data of the censuses will be complemented by data from selective surveys of time-budgets of blue- and white-collar workers.
It is also a white-collar masculinity, and while 'nerds ' are marginalised, they also gain a form of power through their technical mastery.
The 'white-collar' families used force, or the threat of force, to secure closed play areas for their 'type' of child.
Bretons in this mixed-class area nonetheless included railway workers, shopkeepers and the occasional male white-collar worker.
Initial concern was expressed over school-leavers entering towns who displayed a reluctance to engage in anything other than scarce white-collar work.
At first, economic development and its attendant white-collar majorities were themselves in short supply.
Similarly, bluecollar workers were significantly more likely than white-collar workers to have left part-time work (36.2% versus 15.5 %).
It has modern commercial areas, and businesses of white-collar professionals.
Here we see the revolution in prototype : the same urban bias, concentrated in the same white-collar and skilled trades.
Over 19 per cent of serving seafarers' fathers were white-collar workers but only six per cent of students' fathers were in the same category.
First, this did not seem to me to be a good example compared to other white-collar contexts like call centre employment.
The decline of trade-union membership may be one of the key reasons for declining involvement of both routine white-collar and manual workers in formal associations.
He goes on to suggest steps we can take to be part of what he calls the 'white-collar revolution'.
Of course, interest in artisans, small shopkeepers, white-collar workers and other groups has not been completely lacking.
Many characterised the inactive work of the white-collar employee through a language of heroic physicality.
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