Sentences with phrase «blue collar jobs by»

Within the city, white collar jobs outnumber blue collar jobs by nearly a 2:1 ratio.

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Located in Ohio's Lorain County, a hit - by - hard - times blue - collar region some 30 miles from downtown Cleveland, Elyria Foundry was started as a job shop for the region's heavy - machinery trades.

In terms of the large - scale, mass - produced economy, the utility of low - skill human workers is rapidly diminishing, as many blue - collar jobs (e.g., in manufacturing) and white - collar jobs (e.g., processing insurance paperwork) can be handled much more cheaply by automated systems.

By Thursday morning it was becoming clear he had done a good job: the rather unsubtle white van man / blue collar approach (BEER!)

The movie's hard - luck, blue - collar characters are forced by economic circumstances to take the dangerous job, so it's easy to see them as exploited victims.

«Blue Collar» (1978), 9:00 p.m.: Stymied by their dead - end jobs and existence, three Detroit auto workers (Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto) decide to rip off their union office.

Christian Bale stars in the film as Russell, working a dead - end blue collar job at the local steel mill by day, and caring for his terminally ill father by night.

But, by the time my father's students entered high school, taking shop meant being on a track to a skilled blue collar or trade job — construction, automotive, plumbing.

The proposal called for closing sixty - four schools, gutting the central office staff, privatizing blue - collar jobs if the unions didn't offer major concessions, and carving up the remaining schools into «achievement networks» potentially managed by private third parties.

The cheapest way to produce a shoddy car and maximize profits was through giant factories that did everything in - house using unskilled workers who had no loyalty to the company but were held captive by the lure of blue collar jobs requiring minimum education and training for which they were overpaid.

With good paying blue collar jobs hard to come by there are a lot of people that are thinking about getting started in the trucking industry but don't have the money to pay for schooling up front.

2016 was one of the most turbulent years in recent memory, and laid bare the fault lines created by globalization and automation — particularly of jobs that have been performed by blue - collar workers.