A white collar worker is a person who performs professional, desk,
managerial, or administrative work. White-collar work may be performed
in an office or other administrative setting. White-collar workers
include job paths related to government, consulting firms, academia,
accountancy, business and executive management, management consulting,
customer support, market research, finance, human resources,
operations research, marketing, information technology, networking,
attorneys, medical professionals, architects, research and development
and contracting. Other types of work are those of a grey-collar
worker, who has more specialized knowledge than those of a blue-collar
worker, whose job requires manual labor and a pink-collar worker,
whose labor is related to customer interaction, entertainment, sales,
or other service-oriented work. Many occupations blend blue, white and
pink (service) industry categorizations.The term refers to the white
dress shirts of male office workers common through most of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Western countries, as opposed to
the blue overalls worn by many manual laborers.The term refers to the
white dress shirts of male office workers common through most of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Western countries, as opposed to
the blue overalls worn by many manual laborers.The term "white collar"
is credited to Upton Sinclair, an American writer, in relation to
contemporary clerical, administrative, and management workers during
the 1930s, though references to white-collar work appear as early as
1935. White collar employees are considered highly educated as
compared to blue collar.Formerly a minority in the agrarian and early
industrial societies, white-collar workers have become a majority in
industrialized countries due to modernization and outsourcing of
manufacturing jobs. White-collar worker Top Movies & Young Movies