Blue Collar Vs.

White Collar

By: Andrew Cond

 Blue Collar
• of or pertaining to wage-earning workers
who wear work clothes or other
specialized clothing on the job.
 Brief B.C. History
• Throughout history the man’s job
in the family was to make money,
so they mostly relied on farming,
carpentry, and masonry.
• These BC jobs were the
mainstays of people lives up until
WWII.
• In WWII America the govt. set up
a draft to get more men to the
war effort, so the workforce was
depleted but not for long…
Brief B.C. History(2)
• During WWII with no men to work
in the factories women answered
the call and came to work in the
factories. Continuing Americas
mass production dominance over
the world.
• 2.9 million women joined the men
in factories producing the guns
and tanks to win the war.
• The reason the women took these
jobs was because the pay was at
$1 an hour which was
substantially high for this time
period.
 White Collar
• Jobs generally do not involve manual labor
or the wearing of a uniform or work
clothes.
 W.C. Brief History
• White Collar didn’t claim its “titles” till after
WWII because all the “Boys” were coming
home and they were using their GI bill
money to go to college and buy houses to
live the “American Dream”
 White Vs. Blue #’s

White Collar 54,581,700 38%

Blue Collar 87,990,000 62%

Total 142,571,700 100%

Workers
 White Vs. Blue #’s (2)
• So the Blue Collar workforce makes up the
vast majority of working people in
America, when most people assume that
it’s the White Collared who are more
predominant.
 H.S. Teacher Vs. WD Manager

• HST- $43,564
• WDM- $ 47,900
• Difference- $4,000
• 9% difference in earnings
• So the college educated Teacher makes on
average 4K less than the “Garbage Man.”
Med. Lab Technician Vs. Warehouse Manager

• MLT- $37,013
• WM- $43,976
• Difference- $6,000
• 19% difference in earnings
• Once again the blue collared worker is making
on average a high amount of money.
 Mike Rowe
• “Your life would be a little better if you
could work a little less, if you could come
home a little earlier, if you could retire a
little faster.”
• Mikes referring to the ideals that belong to
W.C. working a little less, getting home a
little earlier, and retiring faster.
 BC work stabability
• Blue Collar work is more stable than WC
work because every body needs running
water. (Plumber) Where as not every body
needs a lawyer. They most normally make
there money in the frivolous lawsuits
against big companies or criminals.
 The needs…
• Blue collar work will always be needed
everybody needs plumbers and carpenters and
masons and construction workers. Because
things break and these guys are who you call
when you need it fixed.
• Also people born in 1980 and ^ are coming out
of college to find that there are no job openings
and working below their qualifications. Says the
Department of Employment 6.
 So...
• The government has even admitted that
blue collar jobs are more stable they even
passed a stimulus bill of $144billion dollars
in favor of infrastructure rebuilding aka
blue collar palooza!
 Concluding.
• SO this fight seems to be one sided showing all
the downsides of the white collar world.
• That isn't the purpose of this presentation, the
purpose was to highlight the amazing abilities
and goals that can be attained if you choose to
for go college for manual labor.
• But White Collar does have a few bonuses, such
as a higher earning ceiling “million a year guys.”
 Links
• http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/white-collar
• http://www.statehealthfacts.org/profileind.jsp?ind=748&cat=1&rgn=1
• http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blue+collar