blue-collar job

A higher level academic education is often not required for many blue-collar jobs.

Indeed, more people with higher education are filling blue-collar jobs.

And for women over the age of 30 in blue-collar jobs, the pregnancy rate is less than 2 percent.

Our father had been scraping by on two and three blue-collar jobs.

Women are moving into blue-collar jobs that used to be exclusively male.

About 40 percent work in blue-collar jobs, while another quarter are professionals.

Blue-collar jobs, he says, have been lost primarily to new technologies.

"There used to be a lot of blue-collar jobs that paid well in this city, but they are mostly gone."

Some workers say the Bush administration is not doing enough to stem the blue-collar job losses.

"The difference today is that blue-collar jobs are becoming more sophisticated."

But most have blue-collar jobs where they earn salaries close to the national average.

What the people desperately need is blue-collar jobs that create revenue.

These are, after all, the highest-paying blue-collar jobs left in America.

Waiting on tables could be the only blue-collar job where the workers show up in a bow tie.

These more affluent people usually had white-collar, not blue-collar jobs.

Two men share a dormitory room on a rainy day off from their blue-collar jobs.

Most of them work in factories, other blue-collar jobs or as domestics.

Later he started working in a series of blue-collar jobs, as a handyman and carpenter.

The loss of a blue-collar job is no less traumatic, of course.

Without it, he said, the best he could have hoped for was a good blue-collar job.

Jack makes it sound like tassel-loafered lobbying is a blue-collar job.

Some focus on the potential loss of blue-collar jobs if such a major tract is given over to "luxury" housing.

You used to have to be a scientist to operate a phone, and then it became a blue-collar job."

His parents worked blue-collar jobs in construction and textiles.

A music video was filmed for the song, depicting people on the job in various blue-collar jobs.