Before we understand the term ‘New Collar’ that hosts a new category of workers let’s revisit the prevailing terms long being used in the corporate world, namely :
Blue Collar : Blue-collar workers are those who are engaged in manual labour, typically agriculture, construction, mining, manufacturing etc. Blue collar jobs are usually delivered by neo skilled or unskilled personnel.
White Collar : White-collar workers are the ones engaged in doing highly specialised work minus physical labour. They perform managerial or desk work in an office or other professional environment.
White collar employees are considered comparatively more educated than blue collar staff and in normal parlance imply higher (white collar) and lower (blue collar) social class – though ought to be unacceptable in modern civilised societies yet unfortunately rather widely prevalent.
The term ‘new-collar’...
