The expectation that Mr. Sansolo would have had company stems from the status of advertising as a white-collar profession with creative underpinnings.

The three-act play examines the failures, successes, and relationships of six black steel mill workers in Chicago as they transition from blue-collar jobs to the white-collar professions.

Furthermore, before World War II and particularly during the Depression, teaching was a respectable white-collar profession for children of immigrants.

From 1979 to 1995, hourly wages declined among men in almost every occupational category apart from the highest paid white-collar professions.

Some of these "twice-over" migrants became retailers, while others found suitable employment in white-collar professions.

However, he was unable to practice law due to labor laws in Lebanon that restricted Palestinians from most white-collar professions.

Today, Cardiff is a centre for white-collar professions.

But the colonial legacy, which worked in favour of educating my grandparents, has left behind an obsession with white-collar professions.

Historically, Mr. Huband noted, engineering is a first step from blue-collar families into the white-collar professions.

Salaries were less than those for many other white-collar professions and even some blue-collar jobs.