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white-collar sweatshop  

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  • Employment in large organizations has undergone significant change in recent decades. During the postwar “golden age” of the expansion of capitalism, large organizations such as publicly listed corporations and state-run bureaucracies offered long-term, stable employment to blue-collar workers and even more so to white-collar workers. [Source: Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia; White-Collar Sweatshop]

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