Mr. Kershaw was an agricultural chemist for the state — a white-collar position that was much respected locally — but, despite his sophisticated education and job, he was a country boy through and through, with all the practical and improvisatory skills he'd acquired growing up on a subsistence farm.
If you worked in a blue-collar position before retirement, you may have honed some trade skills throughout the years.
About 90 white-collar positions in the company's headquarters will be affected.
White-collar positions have also steadily decreased at all the automakers and their suppliers.
Today, fears are growing about job instability and increasing competition, here and abroad, for the best white-collar positions.
White-collar positions went to English-speakers, Iyers, Shahs and the rest: you could search in vain in an official phone directory for a single Marathi name.
In Singapore — another hub of banking, legal and other white-collar positions — only 2.2 percent of people are registered as being out of work.
Around the time she was suspended, I ran into the Rev. Al Sharpton, who was protesting baseball's record for hiring blacks in white-collar positions.
Harold E. Vogt, president of the county's Chamber of Commerce, said the labor shortage "goes across the board," from highly technical jobs to entry-level and blue-collar positions.
The jobs cover everything from assembly-line work to white-collar positions like business development, and typically pay $8 to $15 an hour, according to LaDonna Pavetti, a director at the center.
Women in Sweden, Finland and Denmark — and other countries held up as paragons of gender parity — are much more likely to end up in traditional pink-collar positions than are their counterparts in the United States.
