He finds that rates of joblessness differed primarily according to class: those in middle-class and white-collar occupations were far less likely to be unemployed.

他发现，失业率主要根据阶级不同而不同：中产阶级和白领阶层失业的可能性要小得多。

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If there is a growing group of "plasticine men" among China's white-collar class, it is hardly surprising, said outspoken sociology professor Zhou Xiaozheng of Renmin University in Beijing.

中国人民大学一贯坦率直言的社会学教授周孝正说，中国白领阶层中出现越来越多的“橡皮人”，这一点不令人吃惊。

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In that era you also had your upper-middle class and your lower-upper class and off on the side were the collar classes, white and blue.

在那个时代，中产阶级也有上部下部之分。此外，也可以分为白领阶级和蓝领阶级。

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Then, when their kids go into the mainstream, they become the new white-collar class of doctors, lawyers and managers.

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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.

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And, because the middle class has expanded, it can supply a large part of the white-collar workforce.

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