BLUE-COLLAR | Định nghĩa trong Từ điển tiếng Anh Cambridge

Another drawback was that day care proved to be used more by whitecollar than blue–collar groups.

All the regional funds had combined into a national health fund for blue–collar workers.

There were, however, some differences between white-collar and blue–collar employees.

It initially covered only blue–collar workers, representing only 3% of the population.

The unusual feature of this scheme was that blue–collar workers in small firms were covered at the same time as large-firm employees.

Instead, strikes remained local and sectional, rarely involving blue–collar workers, and often taking physical forms.

Until recently, white-collar have been more eager than blue–collar groups to live according to the two-earner model with the children in day-care centres.

Companies with lower average wages and a higher percentage of unskilled blue–collar workers might participate more in order to gain cheap labour.

A hallmark of a post-industrial society is the prevalence of the white-collar, service sector rather than the blue–collar, industrial sector in its economy.

In 1973 there were only three health insurance funds for blue–collar workers, down from the 73 existing in 1903.

Others remained committed to the provision of low-cost benefits to a blue–collar clientele, and continued to be known as hospital contributory schemes.

On the other hand, blue–collar cannot be inflected for number like a noun or be used as a prepositional phrase complement.

White-collar workers tended to be twice as satisfied as blue–collar workers (40per cent and 2 0 per cent respectively).

The source of income of the breadwinner in such households would usually be wage-work, either in a blue–collar or a white-collar occupation.

When we restricted the analysis to people with blue–collar occupations, a similar pattern emerged.