Were we blue-collar workers all along? - Peter Bryant
- There’s a common idea among economists that you can broadly split employees into two categories.
- “White-collar” workers are typically people who work in offices doing service-based, knowledge-based, managerial, or administrative work; “blue-collar” workers generally do manual labour or perform skilled trades.
- Since at least the start of my career, software engineers have been considered white-collar.
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- There’s a common idea among economists that you can broadly split employees into two categories.
- “White-collar” workers are typically people who work in offices doing service-based, knowledge-based, managerial, or administrative work; “blue-collar” workers generally do manual labour or perform skilled trades.
- Since at least the start of my career, software engineers have been considered white-collar.
Sources: Ptrbrynt