White Collar Workers Quotes

“But the white collar workforce seems to consist of two groups: those who can’t find work at all and those who are employed in jobs where they work much more than they want to. In between lies a scary place where you dedicate long hours to a job that you sense is about to eject you, if only because so many colleagues have been laid off already.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

“If anyone can testify credibly to the decline of the American dream, it is the white-collar unemployed—the people who “played by the rules,” “did everything right,” and still ended up in ruin.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

“The white business class came and went as locusts; when times were flush they came to the city and ate everything, then left again to the suburbs during lean years.”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, Grievers