THEIR COLLARS STAY WHITE BECAUSE THEY DON'T DO ANY WORK:

Hard Times for Nonprod Workers in Manufacturing (Michael Mandel, October 26, 2009, Business Week)

The rate of job cuts for production workers in manufacturing has slowed dramatically in the past few months, as companies start to rebuild inventories.

However, they are still aggressively slicing their nonproduction workers—engineers, managers, sales staff, and the like.