In fact, the blue- and the white-collar workers have become economic puppets who dance to the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management.

事实上，蓝领和白领工人已经变成了经济上的木偶，随着自动化机器和官僚管理的节奏起舞。

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Workers, white collar and blue collar alike, have seen a decade go by without much of an increase in wages despite their increasing productivity.

尽管生产效率提高了，但是工人、白领和蓝领的工资在这十年以来却没有太多的增长。

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Here, and many of the fancy dress well-paid white-collar workers, Wang was wearing a dark blue suit, gold tie line.

和这里许多着装考究的高薪白领一样，王身穿深蓝色西服，系金色领带。

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Within that constituency, interviewers were then told to find people with a given set of characteristics--ie, a certain proportion of men and women, of blue-collar and white-collar workers.

ECONOMIST: Why the polls got it wrong last time

Of course, if the samples are to be representative, interviewers need to contact the same proportion of, say, blue-and white-collar workers as there are in the population as a whole.

ECONOMIST: Why the polls got it wrong last time

The growth in real earnings for blue-collar professions--industry, warehousing and construction--have generally lagged those of white-collar workers.

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