Blue-collar workers are those who are required to wear uniforms when working with manual labor as their main wage income.
The occupations it includes are industrial and mining workers, agricultural workers, construction workers, dock workers, and warehouse keepers.
Blue-collar workers are often compared to white-collar workers, who clearly don't work at their desks to do paperwork. Many of today's skilled workers are referred to as blue-collar workers. Blue-collar workers have always been a shortage of talents in many domestic enterprises.
New blue-collar workers refer to grassroots workers who work and live in second-tier (or above) cities and contribute to the daily operation of the city, including sales, real estate agents, security guards, beauty salons, couriers and other professional groups, as well as some grassroots white-collar workers. The "new blue-collar" demographic does not include traditional factory workers, construction workers, etc.
Factory workshop, technical college graduates are not "blue collars" in the traditional sense, but "new blue collars", technical schools, higher vocational professional settings to employment-oriented, ability-based, directly docking market demand, graduates can enter the enterprise can be independent, in the eyes of the enterprise is of course a talent. The popularity of "new blue-collar workers" tells us that people's understanding of talent is getting to the root of the problem.
The term blue-collar is also sometimes used to add to the environment, restaurant or bar to indicate that the area is frequented by blue-collar people or has characteristics that appeal to blue-collar workers. However, not all of these descriptions are positive, and sometimes describing a bar as a blue-collar bar can represent negative portrayals such as violent, crude, and only basic services. The term blue-collar is often used in the West with some derogatory connotations. More positive statements may include special manual effort, special requirements for functionality, less concern for red tape, and no nitpicking.
Many blue-collar workers are quite experienced and knowledgeable at work, and although they do not necessarily have a formal schooling, after accumulating a certain amount of experience, they are often assigned by their superiors to lead the team, such as foremen. Other characteristics of blue-collar workers are the way salaries are calculated and paid, which are usually hourly, and may be paid weekly rather than monthly, or cash instead of cheques or remittance banks. Blue-collar workers who work in shifts are less likely to have holidays than Shift_work. In most cases, the salaries of blue-collar workers are lower than those of white-collar workers, and some very professional blue-collar workers may also receive higher salaries. Finally, blue-collar workers face very high occupational injuries and risks compared to white-collar workers, and usually enjoy certain health insurance benefits.
Blue-collar unions are important organizations to strengthen the occupational safety and welfare of blue-collar workers, and blue-collar unions often negotiate with management on details such as benefits, working hours and wages, and have the responsibility to mediate conflicts within the organization. Many high-profile strikes have been carried out by blue-collar unions.
Blue-collar surveys show that there are slightly more men than women; There is a trend of younger people, with people under the age of 35 accounting for 55% of the blue-collar population; Nearly 50% of blue-collar workers have a high school, technical secondary school or technical school degree; Blue-collar individuals have a moderate income, with 42% of blue-collar individuals earning between 1,000 and 2,000 yuan per month.
Ethnic characteristicsThe size of China's blue-collar population is growing rapidly, and has even greatly exceeded that of white-collar workers. With the emergence of new industries such as computers, air conditioners, and mobile phones, the scope of blue-collar employment has extended from the "production line" to after-sales service. Modern blue-collar workers have uniform production skills and occupational norms, which exist in various industries, such as high-level skilled workers, taxi drivers and logistics and transportation workers with standardized services, culinary workers with high standards of hygiene, and farmers with modern agricultural technology knowledge for mechanized operations.
What does a blue-collar worker do? Blue-collar workers are manual laborers, because they are easy to sweat when doing heavy work, so they all wear blue-collar shirts (dirty ones are not easy to see), called white-collar workers. Company employees work in the office and wear white-collared shirts (without sweating), so they are called white-collar workers. A metaphor for manual workers and mental workers.
Gold-collar→ white-collar→ gray-collar→ blue-collar (blue-collar is further divided into: sharp blue, general blue, dark blue)
Gold-collar: The gold-collar class is a highly concentrated class of social elites, who do not necessarily own the means of production, but have the most important technical and operational rights of a company. The American "Fortune" magazine commented on the gold collars: they are between 25 and 45 years old, well-educated, have certain work experience, business planning ability, professional skills and certain social relationship resources, and have an annual salary of between $150,000 and $400,000. According to a questionnaire survey conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics Urban Social and Economic Survey Corps in 10 provinces and cities including Beijing, Shanghai, and Zhejiang, 9,956 urban high-income families show that most of the "gold-collar" high-income strata have a monthly salary of more than 10,000 yuan, have a house of their own, and the market price is about 800,000 yuan, and have an imported car or at least a domestic car of Audi, Santana and other grades.
White-collar workers: Those who are required to wear formal clothing such as suits at work. White-collar workers in office buildings were first known to people, most of them were well-educated, hired by their bosses because of their skills, and knew how to dress themselves up appropriately and stand alone at work. In the face of impermanence, the world is more contemplative, and the way of dealing with problems is more practical. By U.S. standards, a white-collar worker is a person who earns $80,000 a year and does purely intellectual work (U.S. standard).
Gray collars: Compared with "white-collar" and "blue-collar", white-collar workers are generally management or do some clerical things, while "gray collars" have both a strong level of theoretical knowledge and a very skilled technical staff. But the "gray collars" are not like the first-line blue collars, their salaries are 3-5 times that of the average blue collars, and they have more knowledge and better specialties than the blue collars. Careers such as electronic engineer, software development engineer, decoration design engineer, drawing engineer, spraying electroplating engineer, etc.
Blue-collar workers: As opposed to white-collar workers, blue-collar workers are the working class that are engaged in manual labor and are required to wear uniforms. They are paid for their physical strength. As a result, their wages are not high. According to relevant statistics, the salary of blue-collar workers is usually not higher than 1,000 yuan. Pulan and dark blue are engaged in manual labor, but dark blue refers to people who have a certain amount of skill. Ruilan is the middle transition class, which may be like a white-collar transformation.
Pink Collars: "Pink Collars" refer to those freelancers who work from home. They are connected by computer, telephone and fax. Most of them come from the "brain-eating" class, engaged in freelance writing, advertising design, clothing, jewelry, pottery and various handicraft design, product marketing, import and export trade, management consulting and other work. Most of them are highly educated young people, and their common characteristics are the search for individual values, the pursuit of labor and management fairness, and the acceptance of market challenges. Because most of the people engaged in this work are women, they are also known as "pink-collar beauties".
Blue-collar workers: As opposed to white-collar workers, blue-collar workers are the working class that are engaged in manual labor and are required to wear uniforms. They are paid for their physical strength. As a result, their wages are not high. According to relevant statistics, the salary of blue-collar workers is usually not higher than 1,000 yuan. Pulan and dark blue are engaged in manual labor, but dark blue refers to people who have a certain amount of skill. Ruilan is the middle transition class, which may be like a white-collar transformation.
White-collar workers: Those who are required to wear formal clothing such as suits at work. White-collar workers in office buildings were first known to people, most of them were well-educated, hired by their bosses because of their skills, and knew how to dress themselves up appropriately and stand alone at work. In the face of impermanence, the world is more contemplative, and the way of dealing with problems is more practical. By American standards, a white-collar worker is someone who earns $80,000 a year and does purely mental work.
