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adjective (pos=green--collar, collar)
- Of or pertaining to both employment and the environment or environmentalism.
- 1976, Patrick Heffernan, "Jobs for the Environment " The Coming Green Collar Revolution", in Jobs and Prices in the West Coast Region: Hearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 134,
- 1997, Geoff Mulgan, Perri 6 sic et al., The British Spring: A Manifesto for the Election After Next, Demos, page 26,
- :The United States, Canada, Germany, and Denmark are all generating hundreds of thousands of new &
- 39;green collar&
- 39; jobs, especially for young people, achieving remarkable reductions in energy, water, waste disposal and materials costs.
- 2001, Diane Warburton and Ian Christie, From Here to Sustainability: Politics in the Real World, Earthscan, page 75,
- :Studies for the UK suggest that the more than 100,000 existing &
- 39;green collar&
- 39; workers in environmental occupations could be joined by many thousands more, both in the private sector and in the 'social economy' of community enterprises.
- Of or pertaining to rural, agriculture, agricultural employment; often contrasted with urban blue-collar employment.
- 1983, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Forestry, Water Resources, and Environment, Cultivation of Marihuana in National Forests: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Forestry, Water Resources, and Environment, …, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 32,
- :American marihuana growers, who have more recently become known as America's "" workers because of the bright green color of their product, …
- 2004, Martin Heidenreich et al., Regional Innovation Systems: The Role of Governances in a Globalized World, Routledge UK, page 394,
- :<table class="wikitable"><tr><td>Qualification structure of the workforce (%)</td><td>1980</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td> Blue-collar</td><td align="center">29.7</td><td align="center">33.5</td></tr><tr><td> Green-collar</td><td align="center">21.2</td><td align="center">10.0</td></tr><tr><td> White-collar</td><td align="center">25.0</td><td align="center">31.7</td></tr><tr><td> Grey-collar</td><td align="center">24.0</td><td align="center">24.8</td></tr></table>
Etymology: By analogy with other compounds in -collar, especially white-collar and blue-collar, and taking green to represent the environment, environmentalism, and so on.
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