Shilpa Shinde

It is tough for an actress to raise her voice on sexual harassment because the chances are they will question your character, they will ruin your career, and they will defeat you in the power game. So one has to be very strong to fight against these white-collar mafias.

Indian Actress

Graydon Carter

I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank.

American Journalist

Gloria Steinem

Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.

American Activist

Preet Bharara

The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels.

American Public Servant

Nigel Ng

I wasn't raised in a very Western environment. I went to a Chinese-speaking school. In my group of friends, the goal was to be a white-collar worker: an engineer, lawyer, accountant.

Malaysian Actor

Sara Paretsky

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

American Author

Joel Salatin

Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.

Joe R. Lansdale

Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.

American Writer

Joao Lourenco

We're carrying out a real crusade against corruption and impunity with a focus on white-collar crime.

Angolan Politician

John Grisham

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Refers to work done in an office setting, not physical labor.

Office Environment

Implies higher social or economic status and education level.

Social Status

Involves mental or clerical work, as opposed to manual work.

Mental Skill

White-collar crime typically affects the economy, not physical well-being.

Economic Harm

White-collar crimes often involve deception or trust betrayal.

Deceptive Nature

These crimes are non-violent but can have large-scale consequences.

Non-Violent

 Ordinary barbers, clerks, white-collar people. So, you go down, one of you will be a learner, one will be a teacher. The learner's a genial, middle-aged guy. He gets tied up to the shock apparatus in another room. The learner could be middle-aged, could be as young as 20. And one of you is told by the authority, the guy in the lab coat,

The psychology of evil PIPE...

 you feel invisible. And a lot of moral injury, sense of feeling betrayed, and frankly, in this country, we almost have one success story, which is you go to college, get a white-collar job, and you're a success, and if you don't fit in that formula, you feel like you're not respected. And so that accumulation of things --

Political common ground...

 or the support ecosystem. These are the ones who fit neither the policy stereotype of the low-skilled and the marginalized, nor the white-collar, salaried office worker or civil servant with a pension that the middle classes are allegedly composed of.

The hidden opportunities...

 white-collar workers are doing less of this kind of work, and more of this kind of work. That routine, rule-based, left-brain work -- certain kinds of accounting, financial analysis, computer programming -- has become fairly easy to outsource,

The puzzle of motivation...

 cleaning, security, home health aids. Simultaneously, employment is shrinking in many middle-education, middle-wage, middle-class jobs, like blue-collar production and operative positions and white-collar clerical and sales positions.

Will automation take...

 rat, snake, traitor, tattletale, weasel. And those are the nice words, the ones I can say from the stage. And so when I'm not in class, I go around the country and I interview white-collar felons, whistle-blowers and victims of fraud.

How whistle-blowers...

 that because of this huge industry that has started over the last two decades in India offshoring software development on back office services there's been a flight of white-collar jobs from the developed world to India then this is

India's invisible...

 rather than asking the more fundamental question why do we educate a hundred years ago we were trying to build an informed population fifty years ago we were differentiating students into blue-collar and white-collar careers and

Creating a public school...

 the birth of McJob x' and the death of traditional careers white-collar workers are hit the hardest this time the stereotype of the slacker is born the whole idea of us being pegged as

Birth of the Slacker PIPE...

 But see how it is beyond the volume zone of to-be white-collar workers. You might think I was delighted. After all, my robot was surpassing students everywhere.

White-collar

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