In Britain, unlike abroad, white collar workers seem averse to travelling by bus, but they will happily catch a tram.
Their husbands may be "salarymen" or white collar workers, who leave home in the early hours, and return merely to sleep.
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Windows 8 was an ambitious attempt to update the personal computer for the tablet era by moving to a new touchscreen interface based on colourful tiles, hiding the "desktop" launch screen familiar to white collar workers and consumers around the world.
The same forces--technology and globalism--that quelled the wage growth of blue-collar workers may do the same to white-collar workers.
Within that constituency, interviewers were then told to find people with a given set of characteristics--ie, a certain proportion of men and women, of blue-collar and white-collar workers.
People who worked for the state, in state-owned companies or in state-approved collectives, enjoyed cradle-to-grave benefits ranging from housing, education and health care to a generous pension scheme, with an official retirement age of 55 for men and 50 for women for manual workers (but five years more for white-collar workers) and a replacement rate of about 80% of final salary.
The growth in real earnings for blue-collar professions--industry, warehousing and construction--have generally lagged those of white-collar workers.
Renren also has a strong following among white-collar workers in their late 20s and early 30s.
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In September the company announced it would ax 14, 000 white-collar workers and offer buyouts to 75, 000 hourly workers.
All of these firms have increased the number of white-collar workers which their interviewers must seek to interview.
The cloud enables white-collar workers to work anywhere, allowing smart companies to seek locales with low taxes and overhead.
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The book shows that white-collar workers now spend an enormous portion of their time persuading, influencing, and moving others.
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But companies have more ageing white-collar workers than they could possibly promote even if demand were rising, not falling.
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He could not help feeling like a kind of alien in the society of middle-class children of white-collar workers.
He can count on support from pro-euro companies that will provide money for the campaign, and from many male white-collar workers.
On city streets, the cracks in the system are starting to show, as former white-collar workers join the ranks of the homeless.
It is hitting white-collar workers just as hard, and in some cases, when it comes to middle management it's actually hitting them harder.
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If you're a blue-collar worker with a lower education level, this has hit you much harder than it has higher- educated white-collar workers.
Of course, if the samples are to be representative, interviewers need to contact the same proportion of, say, blue-and white-collar workers as there are in the population as a whole.
As well as guaranteeing what is still a good hourly wage, these agreements stifle innovation (through detailed work rules) and offer health-care benefits that are far more generous than those which the steel firms' white-collar workers get.
The scaremongers like to talk about 3 million jobs lost, all things considered, which means not just the factory and white-collar workers of the auto company but the parts suppliers, dealers, repair garages and hot dog stands outside the factories.
Mrs Clinton also enjoys a strong lead among one of her party's most important constituencies, white blue-collar workers.
Residents recall the building's early days, when it was filled with blue-collar workers who were beginning to emerge into white-collar prosperity.
Unlike the manufacturing industry in the West that gave birth to a middle class of both white-collar and blue-collar workers, manufacturers in China mostly absorb surplus labor from rural areas with few skills.
Mr Cowger suggested last month that the firm would save billions if only blue-collar workers would accept the less enticing benefits offered to the firm's white-collar staff.
Many employees such as insurance adjusters, assistant store managers and call-center workers whom we typically consider white-collar, and thus exempt, are actually non-exempt.
The study then compared the views and voting behaviour of unskilled and skilled manual workers to those in the better paid white collar jobs.
Palin, who is considering a run in the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, is using her public platforms to reassemble the coalition of security hawks, social conservatives and blue collar workers that propelled Ronald Reagan to the White House in 1980.
But the cull of older workers, which started in blue-collar industries in the 1970s, spread into white-collar occupations over the next two decades.
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