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"etymology_text": "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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"word": "green-collar crime"
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{
"text": "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,"
},
{
"text": "1997, Geoff Mulgan, Perri 6 [sic], et al., The British Spring: A Manifesto for the Election After Next, Demos, page 26,\nThe United States, Canada, Germany, and Denmark are all generating hundreds of thousands of new 'green collar' jobs, especially for young people, achieving remarkable reductions in energy, water, waste disposal and materials costs."
},
{
"text": "2001, Diane Warburton and Ian Christie, From Here to Sustainability: Politics in the Real World, Earthscan, page 75,\nStudies for the UK suggest that the more than 100,000 existing 'green collar' workers in environmental occupations could be joined by many thousands more, both in the private sector and in the 'social economy' of community enterprises."
}
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"Of or pertaining to employment in the environment or environmentalism industries."
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "pertaining to employment in the environment",
"word": "綠領"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "lǜlǐng",
"sense": "pertaining to employment in the environment",
"word": "绿领"
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"sense": "pertaining to employment in the environment",
"word": "viherkaulus-"
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"text": "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,\nAmerican [marihuana] growers, who have more recently become known as America's \"green-collar\" workers because of the bright green color of their product, […]"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Martin Heidenreich et al., Regional Innovation Systems: The Role of Governances in a Globalized World, Routledge UK, page 394, Qualification structure of the workforce (%) 1980 1997",
"text": "Blue-collar 29.7 33.5\nGreen-collar 21.2 10.0\nWhite-collar 25.0 31.7\nGrey-collar 24.0 24.8"
}
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"Of or pertaining to rural, agricultural employment; often contrasted with urban blue-collar employment."
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"etymology_text": "By analogy with other compounds in -collar, especially white-collar and blue-collar, and taking green to represent the environment, environmentalism, and so on.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more green-collar",
"tags": [
"comparative"
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},
{
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{
"text": "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,"
},
{
"text": "1997, Geoff Mulgan, Perri 6 [sic], et al., The British Spring: A Manifesto for the Election After Next, Demos, page 26,\nThe United States, Canada, Germany, and Denmark are all generating hundreds of thousands of new 'green collar' jobs, especially for young people, achieving remarkable reductions in energy, water, waste disposal and materials costs."
},
{
"text": "2001, Diane Warburton and Ian Christie, From Here to Sustainability: Politics in the Real World, Earthscan, page 75,\nStudies for the UK suggest that the more than 100,000 existing 'green collar' workers in environmental occupations could be joined by many thousands more, both in the private sector and in the 'social economy' of community enterprises."
}
],
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"text": "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,\nAmerican [marihuana] growers, who have more recently become known as America's \"green-collar\" workers because of the bright green color of their product, […]"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Martin Heidenreich et al., Regional Innovation Systems: The Role of Governances in a Globalized World, Routledge UK, page 394, Qualification structure of the workforce (%) 1980 1997",
"text": "Blue-collar 29.7 33.5\nGreen-collar 21.2 10.0\nWhite-collar 25.0 31.7\nGrey-collar 24.0 24.8"
}
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "pertaining to employment in the environment",
"word": "綠領"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "lǜlǐng",
"sense": "pertaining to employment in the environment",
"word": "绿领"
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"sense": "pertaining to employment in the environment",
"word": "viherkaulus-"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "pertaining to rural employment",
"word": "綠領"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lǜlǐng",
"sense": "pertaining to rural employment",
"word": "绿领"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "pertaining to rural employment",
"word": "maatalous-"
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"word": "green-collar"
}
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