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Instead, people worry that the great shift in social mobility that came with the expansion of higher education and of white-collar work has come to an end, leaving the people who did not benefit from it more stuck than ever.
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His 39 years at Caterpillar protect Lierle from the current plan to shed 20, 000 jobs, but he knows many of the workers who are gone, or who will be let go over the next couple of months, and worries that a way of life in blue-collar industrial towns like Peoria is coming to an end.
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They end in hooks which would have been linked together when the collar was worn.
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Wal-Mart stumbled a few years ago with a push into high-end fashion, instead of sticking with cheaper clothing that suited its blue-collar customers.
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The region still remembers the collapse, after the end of the cold war, of the aerospace industry that once supported blue-collar workers in the area.
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Well, to that end, Radiation Shield Technologies has developed a full line of radiation-defeating garments (the thyroid collar being our favorite).
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After the late-2001 collapse of Enron punctuated the end of that era, the Bush administration acted swiftly in taking an aggressive stance on white-collar crime.
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