Q. Consider the following type of workers:

1. Red Collar Workers: Involved in activities like hunting of animals, gathering of plant products, obtaining minerals from the earth’s crust, fishing and harvesting of crops
2. Blue Collar Workers: Involved in activities concerned with addition of value to the already existing products by changing their form
3. Pink Collar Workers: Involved in services rather than production of tangible goods, providing services like retail clerks, barbers, secretaries
4. White Collar Workers: Involved in professional and administrative services like financial and health services, information processing, teaching, government services and entertainment services
5. Gold Collar Workers: Include chief executives, top management officers, researchers, legal authorities, financial advisors and professional consultants providing planning and problem solving services

Which among the following t
Answer: Barbers
Notes: Pink Collar Workers are involved in tertiary activities which are concerned with providing service rather than production of tangible goods. These activities include a range of personal and business services, and they involve a rapidly growing number of workers in highly developed and diversified areas. These persons provide the services like those of retail clerks, barbers, secretaries, etc. They are said to be the workers who take in each other’s washing.

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