Steel Collar
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Things in the workplace that replace or augment human labour. A “steel-collar workforce” is capable of tirelessly and efficiently performing repetitive tasks or monitoring.
- Practical
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A “steel-collar workforce” is capable of tirelessly and efficiently performing repetitive tasks or monitoring. Playing off of the terms “blue collar” and “white collar,” the phrase was first coined in the early 1980s referring to a robotic threat to US manufacturing jobs.
