WHITE COLLAR WORKERS

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Definitions

people who hold clerical, professional, executive or management jobs and one paid salaries as opposed to wages. The term was coined after the white shirts associated with businessmen as opposed to the blue or dark colored shirts worn by persons employed in industry and as manual labor.