blue-collar

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Based in Salinas, Calif., a blue-collar city outside of Monterey, the floors of Pacific Valley are frequently covered in dirt that farmers track in, dressed in Wrangler jeans and work boots.

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The author also describes the formative decades when Mr. Sanders—born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to unhappy blue-collar Jewish parents—scrapped his way through high school and college before moving to rural Vermont in 1968.

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White-collar workers shouldn’t dismiss a blue-collar career change.

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But in a blue-collar job market being reshaped by technology and private equity, there are faster routes to six-figure paychecks than learning a skilled trade—ones that are easier on the joints, too.

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Vocational programs were long seen as places to silo academic underperformers into blue-collar work, administrators note.

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