scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIAL CONTACT OF PEOPLE LIVING IN THE HOUSING ESTATE : Case Study of White-collar Workers Living in Suburbs-Investigation on the Function of the Housing Estate 1

1963 ◽  
Vol 91 (0) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
KAICHIRO KURIHARA ◽  
SUSUMU TOGO ◽  
HIDEO IWANAGA
Keyword(s):  
Social Contact ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Housing Estate ◽  
The Social ◽  
White Collar Workers

National Construction of Occupational Identity: Jewish Clerks in British-Ruled Palestine

1997 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
David De Vries
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
White Collar ◽  
State Building ◽  
Occupational Identity ◽  
Essential Point ◽  
Conservative Politics ◽  
Social Basis ◽  
The Social ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
Symbolic Approach

This essay addresses the relationship between white-collar workers and nationalism by introducing a cultural-symbolic approach to examine how national discourse became an essential “point of production” of white-collar identities, particularly those of clerks and clerical work. Based on an analysis of the imagery that clerks use to describe their work experience, this discussion attempts to document and explain how and why nationalism, as a cultural system with an internal logic and specific stylistic devices, was employed by the clerks “from below” to construct their occupational identity.The association between white-collar workers and nationalism, particularly in the context of state building, has long attracted the attention of sociologists and historians. First, the emergence of non-manual workers as the social basis of bureaucratic organizations was linked to state formation. Second, the role of white-collar workers in the evolution of national-capitalist economies and urban consumer communities was regarded as essential in linking state building and economic change. Third, political and social histories of the nationalist Right centered on bureaucrats and clerical employees as standard-bearers of conservative politics.

Effects of Social Context on Psychological Responses to Survived Myocardial Infarction

1981 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Myocardial Infarction ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Myocardial Tissue ◽  
Psychological Responses ◽  
Work Efficiency ◽  
The Social ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
Returning To Work

Persons respond in a diversity of ways to the crisis of acute myocardial infarction (MI). The social contexts of 120 survivors of MI was examined to determine whether this influenced such responses, working on the assumption that MI would represent a greater threat to the livelihoods of certain groups of persons than it would for other groups. The most prominent influence was observed for patients' occupation, where persons in so-called blue collar occupations exhibited significantly more anxiety in response to MI than did persons in white collar occupations. It was argued that this arose from the possibility that the nature of blue collar jobs was physical, and that loss of myocardial tissue might be expected to more markedly interfere with their work efficiency (on returning to work) than it would the efficiency of the more sedentary jobs of white collar workers.

scholarly journals Equality without improvement? A case study of the impact of the Belgian unified status among blue-collar and white-collar workers on their occupational pensions

2021 ◽  
pp. 138826272110319
Author(s):  
Sarah Knoops
Keyword(s):  
White Collar ◽  
Pension Scheme ◽  
Occupational Pension ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
Occupational Pensions ◽  
Pension Schemes ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

The long-standing EU acquis of equal pay between male and female workers still proves to be a source of inspiration in the fight against discrimination, even in matters beyond the EU’s competence. This article deals with differences in status between blue- and white-collar workers, which have been haunting many Member States even as technological progress erodes its justification. Although this ground was never protected by EU law, a case study of the Belgian unified status with regard to occupational pensions (the second pension pillar), clearly shows the impact of the jurisprudence of the CJEU. In line with this EU case law, there is no requirement to grant the most beneficial pension scheme to all employees, which could lead to equal, but nevertheless very modest occupational pensions. Based on the preliminary results, we can predict that the Belgian unified status will have a positive effect on the number of blue- and white-collar workers affiliated to a pension scheme. It is, however, unlikely that the high level of benefits of the most generous pension schemes will be retained after harmonisation, considering the financial impact on the employer. It is therefore to be expected that the unified status will indeed lead to equal occupational pension schemes between blue- and white-collar workers, but fail to act as a lever to improve the quality of the second pension pillar in Belgium.

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