Abstract
‘White-collar employee’ is a vague term. Its meaning differs between countries, and even within a single country it often means one thing to one person and something else to another. Indicative of the confusion surrounding the term is the large number of synonyms which it has acquired: ‘salaried employee’, ‘office worker’, ‘non-manual worker’, and ‘blackcoated worker’….
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Bain, G.S., Price, R. (1983). The Problem of Definition. In: Hyman, R., Price, R. (eds) The New Working Class? White-Collar Workers and their Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17016-6_2
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