"There is nowhere else to turn in popular culture for such an explicit and provocative analysis of blue-collar life."

This is a rare chance for him to improve his family's blue-collar life.

But the purchase of what is known as the Yale Building has given the sign and the neighborhood a new blue-collar life.

While the work was still difficult, for a few decades workers achieved blue-collar, middle-class lives from it.

It was so very different from my everyday blue-collar life that I never wanted to leave.

After that, he led a largely blue-collar life that instilled in him empathy for the poor.

Several other stories examine blue-collar life from the more complicated perspective of the small-town boy who's gone to the city.

The soaps conscientiously avoid the blue-collar life now oozing through the evening sitcoms.

She was "weirdly attracted to blue-collar life," and, at 5 feet 4 inches tall, to the physical challenge it posed.

I got depressed so many times by my blue-collar life, and self-conscious about the fact that I didn't go to college.