Now, management experts say, as white-collar employment shrinks in the next three years, G.M. must learn to eliminate redundant or irrelevant activities.

Nevertheless, it is the growth of white-collar employment which has accounted for most of the expansion of the upper middle class.

In contrast, the younger Nisei attended university and college and entered various professions and white-collar employment after the war.

Midland has too much white-collar employment to be a typical West Texas oil town.

On the other, there was a steady flow of South Indian migrants to the city, and who came to take over many white-collar employments.

This might reduce nonunion white-collar employment slightly but would have little effect on the public because the names of cars and dealerships would not change.

Within months, Chrysler trimmed white-collar employment by a third, to 18,000 jobs, he said.

The decision is a coup for the city's efforts to retain insurance jobs, since companies like New York Life have long been a major source of white-collar employment.

And why imagine, during the postwar boom in white-collar employment, that Willy would be better off as a blue-collar worker building concrete stoops?

In both blue-collar and white-collar employment, the long-predicted world in which nobody could expect to have one job for a lifetime has now arrived.