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These new-collar workers, who are employed as clerks, keypunch operators, insurance agents, teachers, nurses, and secretaries, are under 45 and have family incomes of between $20,000 and $40,000.
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a University of Massachusetts professor, has coined new-collar to label that third of the baby-boom generation who are what he calls the "workhorses of the service community."
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