Word: white-collar
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...than for men (7.5%), but the rate of joblessness among women with families to support was also a postwar record 10.7% during the last three months of 1981. And while the burden of joblessness still falls most heavily on blue-collar workers, it is spreading into the ranks of white-collar employees: from December 1980 to December 1981, white-collar unemployment rose from...
...some degree the Administration is displaying a double standard. Reagan's stern preachments, it is now clear, are aimed at murderers, rapists and pornographers. For white-collar violations of the law, there is understanding and forgiveness; for the suspicion of impropriety, there is sympathetic patience...
Nearly all the openings were for blue-collar and clerical employees, those tracked most consistently by the Labor Department, using figures supplied by employment offices in all 50 states. Thus the Government's figures exclude many white-collar professional jobs that are not listed with such offices, and the number of open jobs is actually higher than reported...
...folks in Dallas, Houston is a loud, boorish, blue-collar place, overwhelmed by nouveau riche high rollers and overrun with Cadillacs and pickup trucks. To folks in Houston, Dallas is a dull, snobbish, white-collar town, dominated by banking and defense interests, and overrun with Rolls-Royces and Mercedes...
...Children's clothing conveys different kinds of signals, Lurie believes. Working-class children don suits and fancy dresses for a weekend outing. The middle-class kids are the ones in jeans, sneakers and T shirts. The blue-collar children express upward aspirations by their miniature adult costumes; the white-collar children, notes Lurie, "are not expected to do more than equal their parents' status, and at the moment they are on probation...