blue-collar
Example Sentences
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The kind of job insecurity that once seemed the province of hourly, blue-collar jobs haunts white-collar professions these days.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
Some are pivoting to blue-collar work or starting their own businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
“Once we tackle our ability to replace the human hand, and robots can be safely deployed in the same physical space that we do, that will be a game changer for blue-collar work as well.”
From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026
The firm sends thousands of blue-collar workers overseas each year in search of regular, better paid work.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
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
