Renren also has a strong following among white-collar workers in their late 20s and early 30s.
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The growth in real earnings for blue-collar professions--industry, warehousing and construction--have generally lagged those of white-collar workers.
In September the company announced it would ax 14, 000 white-collar workers and offer buyouts to 75, 000 hourly workers.
All of these firms have increased the number of white-collar workers which their interviewers must seek to interview.
The cloud enables white-collar workers to work anywhere, allowing smart companies to seek locales with low taxes and overhead.
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The book shows that white-collar workers now spend an enormous portion of their time persuading, influencing, and moving others.
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The same forces--technology and globalism--that quelled the wage growth of blue-collar workers may do the same to white-collar workers.
But companies have more ageing white-collar workers than they could possibly promote even if demand were rising, not falling.
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He could not help feeling like a kind of alien in the society of middle-class children of white-collar workers.
He can count on support from pro-euro companies that will provide money for the campaign, and from many male white-collar workers.
On city streets, the cracks in the system are starting to show, as former white-collar workers join the ranks of the homeless.
It is hitting white-collar workers just as hard, and in some cases, when it comes to middle management it's actually hitting them harder.
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If you're a blue-collar worker with a lower education level, this has hit you much harder than it has higher- educated white-collar workers.
Within that constituency, interviewers were then told to find people with a given set of characteristics--ie, a certain proportion of men and women, of blue-collar and white-collar workers.
Of course, if the samples are to be representative, interviewers need to contact the same proportion of, say, blue-and white-collar workers as there are in the population as a whole.
As well as guaranteeing what is still a good hourly wage, these agreements stifle innovation (through detailed work rules) and offer health-care benefits that are far more generous than those which the steel firms' white-collar workers get.
The scaremongers like to talk about 3 million jobs lost, all things considered, which means not just the factory and white-collar workers of the auto company but the parts suppliers, dealers, repair garages and hot dog stands outside the factories.
People who worked for the state, in state-owned companies or in state-approved collectives, enjoyed cradle-to-grave benefits ranging from housing, education and health care to a generous pension scheme, with an official retirement age of 55 for men and 50 for women for manual workers (but five years more for white-collar workers) and a replacement rate of about 80% of final salary.
Mrs Clinton also enjoys a strong lead among one of her party's most important constituencies, white blue-collar workers.
Unlike the manufacturing industry in the West that gave birth to a middle class of both white-collar and blue-collar workers, manufacturers in China mostly absorb surplus labor from rural areas with few skills.
Residents recall the building's early days, when it was filled with blue-collar workers who were beginning to emerge into white-collar prosperity.
Mr Cowger suggested last month that the firm would save billions if only blue-collar workers would accept the less enticing benefits offered to the firm's white-collar staff.
Many employees such as insurance adjusters, assistant store managers and call-center workers whom we typically consider white-collar, and thus exempt, are actually non-exempt.
But the cull of older workers, which started in blue-collar industries in the 1970s, spread into white-collar occupations over the next two decades.
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