(1) He is rapidly losing the support of blue-collar voters and of middle-class conservatives.

(2) Chicago policemen, like most policemen, reflect blue-collar values.

(3) We already know about blue-collar woes.

(4) His political support comes mainly from blue-collar workers.

(5) In previous downturns, blue-collar manufacturing workers bore the brunt of job losses.

(6) He predicts that blue-collar jobs will have shrunk to less than 2 percent of total employment.

(7) They also are rising for blue-collar manufacturing and service workers and all households with annual incomes above $ 25, 000.

(8) Always a blue-collar town, Gary developed into a mighty industrial force on the strength of the nearby lakefront steel mills.

(9) For Republicans running in blue-collar districts, where raising the wage attracts support, the argument hurts.

(10) These categories include white-collar workers as well as blue-collar workers.

(11) Cosby portrays a blue-collar worker who was forced to retire early from an airline.

(12) Lately, the restaurant chain, which caters mainly to blue-collar diners, has been hurt by competition.

(13) Some companies hire college graduates as blue-collar worker supervisors and then promote them.

(14) As their baseline constituents, the blue-collar and middle-class white populations, migrated to the suburbs[sentence dictionary], long-standing political alignments dissolved.

(15) Only four in 10 blue-collar, clerical and sales workers are very satisfied.

(16) Buchanan successfully tapped the economic insecurity of blue-collar workers by slamming trade agreements embraced by most Republican leaders, including Dole.

(17) His ability to deliver the C2 blue-collar, Essex-man vote has, arguably, won them the last two general elections.

(18) They were called blue-collar workers .

(19) So they are called blue-collar workers .

(20) My father was a blue-collar worker all his life.

(21) Unemployment rates among white-collar workers show much less regional variation than corresponding rates among blue-collar workers.

(22) Aside from its cast, the show was lauded for its honest and realistic depiction of blue-collar family life.

(23) This mutual stretching of personas is what works best in the new romantic comedy about a couple of blue-collar thieves.

(24) Their biggest problem was having to drag around these old, puffy-looking, blue-collar bodies.

(25) The party and its leaders were defended neither by white nor blue-collar workers nor kolkhoz farmers.

(26) Another is a proposal to raise the minimum wage, which could motivate blue-collar Democrats in key areas.

(27) The school serves a community of approximately 10, 000 people, mostly blue-collar workers who are employed by the pickle plant.

(28) For most of the 1980s that international mobility undermined mostly blue-collar workers.

(29) The ordinary dynamics of supply and demand have certainly played a role: laborsaving technologies have reduced the demand for many "good" middle-class, blue-collar jobs.

(30) Higher professional colleges should be intended for cultivating the senior blue-collar talents.

(31) White-collar knowledge workers respond to different incentives and political appeals than do blue-collar industrial workers.

(32) They're also a study in class mobility: 59% come from lower-middle-class or blue-collar families, and almost half hold advanced degrees.

(33) Boys from blue-collar homes are still 4 times less likely to get to university than the children of parents in non-manual work.

(34) Men's difficulties are hardly evident in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street. But they're hard to miss in foundering blue-collar and low-end service communities across the country.

(35) As denim became more and more essential to blue-collar worker wear, the need for indigo increased, too.

(36) Originally intended to cover three times as many employees, the merit system was whittled down to exclude blue-collar bargaining - unit workers.

(37) By 1925, blue-collar workers in manufacturing industry had become the largest occupational group.

(38) I still think of myself as a blue-collar worker .http://

(39) But they're hard to miss in foundering blue-collar and low-end service communities across the country.

(40) Can McGrady, entering his 11th NBA season, at long last live up to his nonpareil reputation and deliver a blue-collar, crunch-time effort in the post-season?

(41) Rather than go to college after graduation, Willis took the route of his father as a blue-collar worker, transporting work crews at the Du Pont factory.

(42) A blue-collar worker for Chicago's city government, the father became a proxy guided by his son's hand signals from the sidelines.

(43) Job losses have been "far more severe in middle-skilled white- and blue-collar jobs than in either high-skill, white-collar jobs or in low-skill service occupations."

(44) On the right, for the most part, are the below-the-line folks—the blue-collar guys.

(45) Elmont is primarily a middle-class and blue-collar suburb, but there is plenty of fear and loathing, too, in Huntington, L. I.

(46) He was a blue-collar worker and worked very hard but that was the extent of getting dirty.

(47) A company often uses a government agency to recruit blue-collar workers but normally prefers a commercial agency for its white-collar staff.

(48) If a Chinese blue-collar worker had been working nonstop since the Opium War, then he or she might have enough money to buy an apartment in Beijing today.

(49) His dress became as recognized a part of Cuba as he was, with his beard and olive drab becoming an inspiration to blue-collar workers and revolutionaries throughout Latin America and beyond.

(50) By the numbers, a third of professionals in South Korea send their scion to four-year universities, compared with just 7 percent of farmers and blue-collar workers.

(51) Not only blue-collar workers but white-collar workers as well do not have to work on Labor Day because it is observed as a legal holiday in the United States and Canada.

(52) "I'm certain there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of dogs who are owned by blue-collar workers who really feel that they are extremely special, " Professor Coren said.

(53) They have something in common the idea of social status, life attitude, psychological states and social behavior as a distinct group with farmers or blue-collar workers one.

(54) All these situations require an all-around mechanical common sense that is as important to the blue-collar worker as the ability to navigate Microsoft Office is to the white-collar one.

(55) blue-collar workers in the United States have also lost out.