White Collar

(adjective)

Describes a person who performs professional, managerial, or administrative work for a salary.

Related Terms

  • professional
  • college education

Examples of White Collar in the following topics:

  • White-Collar Crime

    • White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
    • White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
    • White-collar crime, is similar to corporate crime, because white-collar employees are more likely to commit fraud, bribery, ponzi schemes, insider trading, embezzlement, cyber crime, copyright infringement, money laundering, identity theft, and forgery .
    • The term "white-collar crime" was coined in 1939 by Edwin Sutherland, who defined it as a "crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation" in a speech entitled "The White Collar Criminal" delivered to the American Sociological Society.
    • Instead, white-collar criminals are opportunists, who learn to take advantage of their circumstances to accumulate financial gain.
  • Class, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System

    • For instance someone committing a white collar crime is most likely from the higher classes and is less likely to be reported or punish.
    • White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
    • Indeed, white-collar crimes are typically committed by individuals in higher social classes.
    • Additionally, men benefit more from white-collar crime than do women, as they are more likely to attempt these crimes when they are in more powerful positions, allowing them to reap greater rewards.
    • Explain why white-collar crime is less likely to be tracked in the U.S.
  • Theories of Deviance

    • The criminal justice system is also structured to reflect differences in power and property, as white collar crime illustrates.
    • White-collar crimes are typically committed by individuals in higher social classes.
    • Examples of white-collar crimes include:
    • As of 2009, the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics do not provide clear statistics on white-collar crime, like they do with other types of crime.
    • Most of the statistics provided are estimates of losses resulting from white-collar crime, which include:
  • Modern Management

    • Career tracks were offered to skilled blue collar jobs and white collar managers, starting in railroads and expanding into finance, manufacturing, and trade.
  • The Working Class

    • Those in the working class are commonly employed in low-skilled occupations, including clerical and retail positions and blue collar or manual labor occupations.
    • Low-level, white-collar employees are sometimes included in this class, such as secretaries and call center employees.
  • The Middle Class

    • The upper-middle class consists mostly of white-collar professionals, most of whom are highly educated, salaried professionals whose work is largely self-directed and typically involves conceptualizing, creating, consulting, and supervising.
  • Inequalities of Work

    • This explanation of the pay gap invokes the notion of the pink-collar worker.
    • A "pink-collar worker" is a term for designating the types of jobs in the service industry that are considered to be stereotypically female, such as working as a waitress, nurse, teacher, or secretary.
    • The term attempts to distinguish this type of work from blue-collar and white-collar work.
  • Job Discrimination

    • This explanation of the pay gap invokes the notion of the pink-collar worker.
    • A pink-collar worker is a term for designating the types of jobs in the service industry that are considered to be stereotypically female, such as working as a waitress, nurse, teacher or secretary.
    • The term attempts to distinguish this type of work from blue-collar and white-collar work.
  • The Postwar Economy: 1945-1960

    • And by 1956, a majority of U.S. workers held white-collar rather than blue-collar jobs.
  • Introduction to Labor in America: The Worker's Role

    • More and more workers hold white-collar office jobs rather than unskilled, blue-collar factory jobs.
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