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unusual facts about Blue Collar



Abdi Mohamoud Omar

In early, 1990s with the support of his friends in military, he found a job at the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation as a blue collar.

Byron Berline

His music has also appeared in many television and film soundtracks, including Star Trek, Blue Collar, Basic Instinct, Blaze, Back to the Future III, Northern Exposure, Stay Hungry, and Run Simon Run.

Christ the Worker Parish, Hong Kong

As most of the residents in the Ngau Tau Kok, Kowloon Bay and Jordan Valley at that time were blue collar workers, the parish was therefore named as “Christ the Worker Parish”.

Lexington Park, Philadelphia

But with Lexington Park being white collar, and Mayfair being blue collar, the "growing up in rough and tumble Mayfair" image apparently far better fit the "Rocky" identity.

Samuel Bookatz

Samuel Bookatz (October 3, 1910 – November 16, 2009) was a prolific painter who defied the demands of his blue collar, Orthodox Jewish upbringing to study art in the United States and Europe.


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Bassprov

The main characters, Donny Weaver (played by Mark Sutton) and Earl Hinkle (played by Joe Bill), are middle-aged central Indiana blue-collar men who spend their free time fishing and talking about sports.

Bert Kramer

Prior to his role of Alex Wheeler, he played blue collar patriarch, Mike Fitzpatrick on the 1977 short-lived drama series, The Fitzpatricks, which also starred Clark Brandon, Jimmy McNichol and Helen Hunt.

Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again

Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again is the 2004 direct to video sequel to the film Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie.

Clackamas County, Oregon

In contrast with the more liberal and cosmopolitan Multnomah County to the north, and the more corporate Washington County to the west, some citizens of Clackamas county have espoused a blue-collar, yet conservative political outlook of the backlash mold described by Thomas Frank.

Culture of New England

While at one point Boston accents were most strongly associated with the so-called "Eastern Establishment" and Boston's upper class, today the accent is predominantly associated with blue-collar natives as exemplified by movies like Good Will Hunting and The Departed.

Jeffrey Bruce Klein

When Larry Flynt expressed an interest in distributing Mother Jones, Klein used the opportunity to do a “Born Again Porn” profile of Flynt and Hustler’s demographics, which were disclosed to be much broader than the presumed blue collar audience.

Kala Hose

Hose is from Waianae, a traditionally blue-collar town on the western coastline of the island of Oahu in Hawaii.

Landsorganisationen

Landsorganisationen translates into English as "the national organisation" and is a term used for the blue-collar trade union confederations in Scandinavia.

Martins Ferry, Ohio

James Wright - Pulitzer Prize winning poet and author who immortalized the blue collar city in his poem, "Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio"

Mount Savage, Maryland

A small blue-collar community, Mount Savage lies at the base of Big Savage Mountain in the Allegheny Mountains, between the cities of Frostburg and Cumberland.

Reagan Democrat

In New Zealand, political columnist Chris Trotter has theorised about the emergence of "Waitakere Man", a traditionally blue-collar constituency who he believes switched their votes to National Party leader John Key in the 2008 elections on the premises of 'ambition' and 'aspiration', and supposedly also represent a backlash against 'political correctness gone mad'.

Reiven Bulado

He is the heir of some family-owned farmlands and commercial fish ponds and regularly enjoys working on these sites as an unofficial blue-collar guy.

Shane White

More recently, his first graphic novel North Country, a 96-page full-color memoir published by NBM Publishing, reveals the hard-scrabble life of living in a blue-collar mill town in upstate New York.

Tim Slagle

Slagle was born in Detroit, Michigan, and adopted by a middle-class family, living in the blue collar area of South Suburban Detroit known as Downriver.

Wallace Stroby

Writing in The New York Times, reviewer Marilyn Stasio said, “Stroby does wonders with his blue-collar characters,” and The Washington Post called the book “a scorching first novel ... full of attention to character and memory and, even more, to the neighborhoods of New Jersey.”

White collar

White-collar worker, a salaried professional or an educated worker who performs semi-professional office, administrative, and sales-coordination tasks, as opposed to a blue-collar worker, whose job requires manual labor