Collar Workers
Groups of workers are sometimes referred to be the characteristics of their uniforms or clothing. Blue-collar workers are so named because they tended to wear sturdy, inexpensive clothing that didn't show dirt easily, such as blue denim or chambray shirts. White-collar workers are named for the white collars fashionable among office workers in the early and middle parts of the 20th century.
Read more about Collar Workers: Blue-collar, White-collar, Specialty Classifications
Famous quotes containing the words collar and/or workers:
“In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker’s productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband’s pain and suffering.”
—Gloria Steinem (20th century)
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—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)