white-collar worker

social class; person who performs intellectual labor
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white-collar worker

Summary

white-collar worker is a social class[1]. It draws 2,359 Wikipedia views per month (social_class category, ranking #14 of 121).[2]

Key Facts

  • white-collar worker's instance of is recorded as social class[3].
  • white-collar worker's instance of is recorded as profession[4].
  • shirt collar is named after white-collar worker[5].
  • white-collar worker is a type of employee[6].
  • white-collar worker's Commons category is recorded as White-collar workers[7].
  • white-collar worker is the opposite of blue-collar worker[8].
  • white-collar worker's facet of is recorded as knowledge worker[9].
  • white-collar worker's facet of is recorded as intellectual work[10].
  • white-collar worker's facet of is recorded as office work[11].
  • white-collar worker's partially coincident with is recorded as knowledge worker[12].
  • white-collar worker's different from is recorded as White Collar[13].
  • white-collar worker's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ast', 'text': 'trabayadora de cuellu blancu'}[14].
  • white-collar worker's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'sr', 'text': 'радница белог овратника'}[15].
  • white-collar worker's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Angestellte'}[16].
  • white-collar worker's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ca', 'text': 'treballadora de coll blanc'}[17].
  • white-collar worker's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'delavka z belim ovratnikom'}[18].
  • white-collar worker's male form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Angestellter'}[19].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include social class[3] and profession[4]. white-collar worker is a type of employee[6]. It is the opposite of blue-collar worker[8].

Origins

shirt collar is named after white-collar worker[5].

Influence

Things named for white-collar worker include white-collar crime[20], a type of crime[21].

Why It Matters

white-collar worker draws 2,359 Wikipedia views per month (social_class category, ranking #14 of 121).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Entities named for it include white-collar crime[20], a type of crime[21].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [20] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of social class, profession
    Partially coincident with knowledge worker
    Opposite of blue-collar worker
    Named after
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 3982, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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