What is a white-collar worker, what is a blue-collar worker and what is an engineer's collar?

White-collar workers refer to people with high education and work experience, which is a general term for workers in enterprises who do not need to do a lot of physical labor in western society. For example, employees engaged in mental work, such as managers, technicians, government officials, etc. Wear a white shirt at work. Also known as the white-collar class, it corresponds to the blue-collar class.

(﹙Blue-collar worker﹚) In some countries or regions, it refers to manual workers. They usually wear blue overalls when they work. Blue collar is the western definition of lifestyle. This concept was put forward by the United States in the 1950s, that is, when the United States entered the information age. It is called white-collar relative family.

Conceptually, engineers are technicians and belong to white-collar workers.

Extended data:

White-collar and blue-collar names come from clothes. White-collar workers are called white-collar workers because their working environment is better, and they usually wear neat clothes, such as white shirts, which won't stain their collars. The blue collar is called blue collar because the work clothes in the factory are generally blue.

In fact, in many developed countries, blue-collar workers earn more than white-collar workers. According to relevant data, the monthly salary of blue-collar workers in the United States is higher than that of white-collar workers. Only when the mental work is complicated to the degree of gold collar, that is, senior employees and bosses, the salary will be higher than that of blue-collar workers. The change of labor structure leads to the corresponding adjustment of salary structure, and senior blue-collar workers with technical content are becoming more and more popular. To some extent, this is a natural phenomenon of social development.

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