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“Just because you’re a white-collar worker, doesn’t mean you don’t deserve job security,” she said.

From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2023

“We can’t keep just thinking about the white-collar worker who’s going from Claremont, California, to Los Angeles,” said Darren Kettle, chief executive of the Los Angeles area’s Metrolink commuter rail.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2022

If you’re lucky, and you’re a white-collar worker, you’re now doing your job — which, let’s be honest, is mostly email anyway — from home.

From The Verge ● Mar. 13, 2020

Once again Rudd plays a burned-out white-collar worker — here, an advertising executive named Miles— whose best days are behind him, or so he believes.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2019

I couldn't have been a lawyer or a clerk or a white-collar worker.

From The Lost Warship by Robert Moore Williams




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