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white-collar worker

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“Dilbert”

  • Scott Adams
    In Dilbert

    …cultural touchstone for many frustrated white-collar workers.

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unionization

  • Sidney and Beatrice Webb
    In industrial relations: Union organizing

    …approach has gained favour among white-collar and professional workers, it still is the exception rather than the rule for these workers to join a union, with the notable exception of government employees.

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  • Sidney and Beatrice Webb
    In industrial relations: Labour–management cooperation

    …the case because blue- and white-collar workers belong to the same union, meaning that there are fewer lines of demarcation between these groups. In most enterprises, for example, the scale of management bonuses is tied to the size of bonuses for blue-collar workers. Many senior Japanese executives served as union…

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  • Writers Guild of America strike
    In organized labour: Trade unionism after World War II: An erosion of strength

    In following these shifts toward white-collar, female, and service-sector employment, unions endeavoured to match strides with the rapidly changing composition of the work force—just as, earlier in the century, they had broken through the divide separating skilled from unskilled manual labour. However, though their composition was modified profoundly, with greatly…

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German Salaried Employees’ Union

German labor organization
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Also known as: DAG, Deutsche Angestellten-Gewerkschaft
Quick Facts
German:
Deutsche Angestellten-Gewerkschaft (DAG)
Date:
1945 - present
Areas Of Involvement:
white-collar worker

German Salaried Employees’ Union, white-collar labour organization in Germany. The DAG was organized in 1945, shortly after the end of World War II, and became established throughout West Germany; after 1990, workers joined from the former East Germany. The original belief was that white-collar workers should have a single organization separate from blue-collar workers. Several unsuccessful attempts were made, however, to integrate the DAG with the German Trade Union Federation, Germany’s largest labour federation. In the 1990s the DAG had about 580,000 members.