blue-collar
- of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners.Compare white-collar.
- a blue-collar worker.
Origin of blue-collar
Examples from the Web for blue-collar
Contemporary Examples of blue-collar
And right now, working-class and blue-collar whites think the Democratic Party is just implacably against them.
“There are a lot of really hard-working, blue-collar people on this train,” she says.
Leaky Ceilings, Catcalls, and Uncaged Pythons: 4 Hours on NYC’s Worst SubwayKevin Zawacki
August 8, 2014
Louie encounters a blue-collar maintenance worker who tells him a joke about Pinocchio—incorrectly.
The value of blue-collar expertise is accepted without question.
Born and raised in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, he grew up in a blue-collar family.
Historical Examples of blue-collar
They have included highly qualified professionals and blue-collar workers, PhD.s.
Marriage Enrichment RetreatsDavid Mace
In industry, the proportion of women in blue-collar and white-collar jobs was about equal.
Area Handbook for RomaniaEugene K. Keefe, Donald W. Bernier, Lyle E. Brenneman, William Giloane, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole
The next level is made up of blue-collar industrial workers, who constitute the largest group in the society.
Area Handbook for BulgariaEugene K. Keefe, Violeta D. Baluyut, William Giloane, Anne K. Long, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole
Four-fifths of all women working in industry were in blue-collar jobs.
Area Handbook for BulgariaEugene K. Keefe, Violeta D. Baluyut, William Giloane, Anne K. Long, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole
blue-collar
- of, relating to, or designating manual industrial workersa blue-collar union Compare white-collar, pink-collar
blue-collar
A descriptive term widely used for manual laborers, as opposed to white-collar for office workers.