A group of blue-collar young men strolled through the food court, trying to decide.
That turns out to be Bottom, who is in the wood rehearsing an excruciatingly bad play with some other blue-collar men.
Life for the blue-collar men of the port is increasingly hard and work is scarce.
Today, it may be hyperbolic to talk about the emasculation of the blue-collar man.
What makes this transition so much more traumatic is that factories and services no longer provide plenty of jobs for blue-collar men.
For blue-collar men, the divorce rate is twice that of men with college degrees.
It has long enjoyed an un-ironic popularity among blue-collar men.
We were dressing like the blue-collar men that turned us on.
There has always been some social distance between us; Frank the blue-collar man, Paul the lawyer.
The drop in the pay for blue-collar men is one reason why lower-income women have been able to catch up.