White Collar

White collar could refer to:

  • White-collar worker, a salaried professional or an educated worker who performs semi-professional office, administrative, and sales-coordination tasks, as opposed to a blue-collar worker, whose job requires manual labor
  • White-collar crime, a non-violent crime, generally for personal gain and often involving money
  • White Collar: The American Middle Classes, a study of the American middle class by sociologist C. Wright Mills
  • White Collar (TV series), a police-procedural, dramatic television series starring Matt Bomer that premiered on the USA Network on October 23, 2009

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or collar:

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