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2 unusual facts about White Collar: The American Middle Classes


Irving Louis Horowitz

Early in his career, Horowitz was a student of Leftist sociologist C. Wright Mills, a Texas-born professor at Columbia University whose most significant books include, White Collar, The Power Elite, and The Sociological Imagination.

White collar

White Collar: The American Middle Classes, a study of the American middle class by sociologist C. Wright Mills


Alexandra Socha

Her television work includes the character Mia in the Showtime series The Big C, single appearances on White Collar, A Gifted Man, Made in Jersey, and a recurring role on the FX series, Damages.

For a Living

The book identifies within American literature of the current Information Age or service economy a new work poetry about the nature and culture of nonindustrial work: white collar, pink collar, domestic, clerical, technical, managerial or professional.

Kathleen M. Williams

Williams became an associate attorney for the firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius from 1988–1990 and focused on white collar criminal defense.

Kirk Kelly

Later, while working in an airline's reservation office Kelly worked as a "white collar member" of the machinist's union.

Lanny Flaherty

Other film roles include Winter People, Millers Crossing, Tom and Huck and Home Fries while television roles include guest appearances on The Equalizer, New York News and White Collar as well as a 2 episode stint on The Education of Max Bickford as Whammo.

Lexington Park, Philadelphia

But with Lexington Park being white collar, and Mayfair being blue collar, the "growing up in rough and tumble Mayfair" image apparently far better fit the "Rocky" identity.

Michael Mulheren

Mulheren has guest starred on several TV shows including Royal Pains, White Collar, Rescue Me, Law & Order, 30 Rock, The West Wing, and Lipstick Jungle.

Sanford Bookstaver

As a television director, some of Bookstaver's episodic credits include Prison Break, The O.C., Dawson's Creek, One Tree Hill, House, Harper's Island, Jericho, White Collar, Fastlane and Bones.

Tim DeKay

DeKay is currently starring in the USA Network series White Collar, which chronicles the partnership between a con artist (played by Matt Bomer) and an FBI agent (DeKay).

White collar

White-collar crime, a non-violent crime, generally for personal gain and often involving money

White-collar worker, a salaried professional or an educated worker who performs semi-professional office, administrative, and sales-coordination tasks, as opposed to a blue-collar worker, whose job requires manual labor

Working Classics

This companion volume features poems about the nature and culture of nonindustrial work in the current Information Age or service economy, i.e. work that may be categorized as white collar, pink collar, clerical, or professional.


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