What is the difference between white and blue collar work, and operationally define each one?

Answer 1

A blue-collar worker is an idiom refering to a member of the working class who performs manual labor and earns an hourly wage. Blue-collar workers are distinguished from service workers and from white-collar workers, whose jobs are not considered manual labor. However, some service workers are also often referred to as blue-collar workers. Traditionally, white-collar workers earn a monthly or annual salary rather than an hourly wage, although paying white-collar workers by the hour is an increasing practice, especially among independent tech contractors. Blue collar work may be skilled or unskilled, and may involve factory work, building and construction trades, law enforcement, mechanical work, maintenance or technical installations. The white-collar worker, by contrast, performs non-manual labor often in an office; and the service industry worker performs labor involving customer interaction, entertainment, retail and outside sales, and the like. Some service industry workers differ as they perform tasks that are mostly unskilled in the service sector.

Answer 2

A fast explanation, Blue collar workers are wage earners skills Varying fro0m no real marketable skill to highly trained workers. dirty environment

White collar workers are non salary to salaried workers any where from office workers to Doctors and lawyers. Clean environment.

Operational people are from both blue collar and white collar. These are the ones that make the clock go tic-talk. If there is severe weather these are the folks that are called in to help as an example hospital workers that work in the ER for the most part are mission essential. The same is true for public service workers. Maybe it is just best to say if a job effects everyone and is a real necessity to keeping a city going Health, electric , water, fire, police, rescue, etc. these are operation essentials.

private business also has what they call operational essentials, but this is at a company level Like the guy that stokes the furnace. or a guy that maintains the computer bank

Answer 3

I was always told that if you have a white collar job you can wear street clothes to work, while a blue collar job usually you have to wear some kind of uniform. This has nothing to do with how much money you make.

Answer 4

Blue Collar
--- Of or relating to wage earners, especially as a class, whose jobs are performed in work clothes and often involve manual labor.
---Employee performing a type of work that often requires a work uniform, which may be blue in color, hence blue-collar. Blue-collar workers range from unskilled to skilled employees. They are not exempt from hour and wage laws and therefore must be paid overtime for working more than 40 hours per week.
---A descriptive term widely used for manual laborers, as opposed to white-collar for office workers.

White Collar
---Of or relating to workers whose work usually does not involve manual labor and who are often expected to dress with a degree of formality.
---A descriptive term for office workers, who use a minimum of physical exertion, as opposed to blue-collar laborers. Managerial, clerical, and sales jobs are common white-collar occupations.
---Of or designating work or workers of relatively high status whose duties call for well-groomed appearance

Answer 5

white collar is like office work

blue collar is physical labor

Answer 6

white collar salary
blue collar hourly jobs

basic difference.

Answer 7

blue collar... working mainly w/one hands or machines.
white collare... all the rest

Answer 8

white collar = clean hands i.e management, office work

blue collar = dirty hands i.e craftsman, someone making a living with their hands