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Blue-collar
"Blue-collar" in a Sentence (11 examples)
Why are, depending on the company, blue-collar workers better paid than white-collar ones?
Sami grew up in a blue-collar suburb.
Tom has a blue-collar job.
White-collar jobs usually pay more than blue-collar ones.
Yanni grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood.
Is Tom blue-collar or white-collar?
Blue-collar workers represent a diminishing segment of society.
The blue-collar, vulnerable McClane of Die Hard wouldn’t even recognize the bulletproof, catchphrase-spouting superhero he’s become in the sequels.
Bargaining on this scale led the way for the NUR's successes in negotiating with the Big Four after 1921, and subsequently British Rail. Privatisation has put paid to much of that, but railway workers are still arguably the most powerful blue-collar workforce in Britain today.
Even as a tenured professor, she remained proud of her blue-collar values.
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In ways, these people defined what it was to be a really good lesbian or a really good dyke. For example: You needed to be articulate or aggressive […] You either needed to be a university or community college person, or a real sincere and hardworking blue collar. If you were from one of the outlying towns, you were likely to have a black mark against you in the first place.
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