White-Collar Blues

Heckscher, Charles. White Collar Blues. New York BasicBooks, a Division of HarperCollins, 1995. 

Nowadays many companies have adopted a policy of continuous improvement of working conditions. Therefore, it is desirable to create target levels for those who want to pursue more efficient control by applying the best available control technologies. There are also endeavors to create optimal working conditions in order to improve the performance and the innovativeness of a staff, and hence enhance productivity. A series of laboratory and case studies show that employee productivity is higher when the work environment is appropriate for the tasks being done.- Such efforts are typical in the advanced sector of industry. One can say that there is a transition from blue-collar to white-collar work. ... 

The sprawling Cincinnati area encompasses three states, multiple counties and countless hills and valleys. It s a bit hard to describe the city American Demographics named it one of America s most typical cities. Cincinnati does seem an average slice of Middle America. Blue-collar workers mixed with white-collar workers. Blacks mixed with whites. A taste of the North mixed with the flavor of the South. One thing is certain this is a city with a focus on its residents. Tourists may very well find themselves bored silly. 

In each individual case, the particular circumstances must be assessed, for instance the employee s longstanding commitment, but also the type of activity performed. The rule is that the yardstick for a gross breach of contract is more lenient for blue-collar than for white-collar workers. 

What can t you use No matter how catchy it sounds, I wouldn t use, "embezzlement s a white collar crime, he s a blue collar guy" for two reasons. Sanders is not, in fact, blue collar, and furthermore, the witness himself corrects this statement. 

The total number of employees in the two cases amounted to approximately 13,000. For an analysis, the employees of the metal processing were divided to the categories of production workers (blue-collar employees) and supervisors (white-collar employees). To facilitate comparison, the following data were also gathered ... 

The estimated RR statistic (metal processing, year 2002) shows that the incidence of injurious work place accidents (including commuting) was clearly higher in blue-collar employees than in white-collar employees. The amount of CA was so minor in supervisors there was no reliable base to estimate RR separately for them. Hence, the WA and CA were analysed together. They belong to the common accident insurance system in Finland in the same way. 

Total of 31 studies, N > 58,000 individuals, adults only Evaluated PbB versus blood pressure 19 general population 4 white-collar workers 8 blue-collar workers Statistically significant positive association, PbB with BP effect size greater for SBP versus DBP Nawrot et al. (2002)... 

The shortage of blue collar workers is not as challenging as that for white collar professionals. This is partially due to improved employment opportunities in... 

People with of higher socio-economic status are more likely to use seat belts than people of lower socio-economic status, based on education (Shinar, 1993 Shinar etaL, 2001), home value (Shinar, 1993), blue versus white collar occupation (Shinar, 1993), and income (Chaudhary et aL, 2004 Chaudhary and Norflirup, 2004 Lemer et al., 2001 Shinar etaL, 2001). 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, fixes the annual work hours at 2,000 (i.e. 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year). In comparison to hours worked by blue collar workers, the actual work hours of white collar workers, for the most part, are not exactly ascertained. As a guide, the actual working time is fixed at 1,750 hours per white collar worker per year (Krause 1974). 

Froelich, A.C., Liu, Y, Loros, J.J., Dunlap, J.C., White Collar-1, a circadian blue Hght photorecptor, binding to the frequency promoter. Science, 297, 815-819, 2002. 

Ballario, R, Talora, C., Galli, D., Linden, H., and Macino, G., Roles in dimerization and blue light photoresponse of the PAS and LOV domains of Neurospora crassa white collar proteins. Mol... 

Schwerdtfeger, C. and Linden, H., Localization and light-dependent phosphorylation of white collar 1 and 2, the two central components of blue light signaling in Neurospora crassa, Eur. J. Biochem., 267, 414, 2000. 

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