blue-collar workers

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The firm sends thousands of blue-collar workers overseas each year in search of regular, better paid work.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

Referring to the K-shaped economy, the Evercore authors also opine that blue-collar workers would be less affected because robots will not be able to fully replicate manual activities.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026

By 1956, white-collar workers outnumbered blue-collar workers for the first time—marking the transition to a service economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

“Paramount was all about a community of blue-collar workers who are doing their best to get by every day,” Lemons said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2025

Constructive interventions would have been good not only for African Americans trapped in ghettos, but also for blue-collar workers of all colors, many of whom were suffering too, if less severely.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander