On his debut album Blue Collar, Rhymefest draws on his years of less glamorous work.
Isn't that the dream of every white, blue-collar parent, and every black, blue-collar parent?
In the past decade the motorcycle industry has been growing increasingly away from its blue collar roots.
John is someone who made it from the blue-collar world into the white-collar world with a blue-collar attitude.
Cofounder and co-CEO of the Carlyle Group, David Rubenstein, grew up in blue collar circumstances in Baltimore.
After all, what sort of business savvy does Blue Collar comedian Jeff Foxworthy add to a panel populated by moguls?
And this proud, blue collar town, where basketball's shot clock was invented, is eagerly anticipating that again, just like in 2003.
Another reason is that CEOS are being treated in a royal fashion compared to middle management and plain blue collar employees.
His original demographic was blue collar clients 35 to 45 years of age who wanted to put a machine in the basement.
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In the same Levada Centre poll, less than 20% of blue collar workers and senior management said they wanted to leave Russia.
More importantly politically is the argument that it was the higher wages in manufacturing that originally pushed America's blue collar workers into prosperity.
Arrive at Doha airport on a late-night flight, and almost everyone in the arrivals hall is a blue collar, male worker from Asia.
She describes the home-based, women-run business phenomenon in this way: "Society has gone through several stages of blue collar and white collar, " she says.
Consider Larry the Cable Guy, who got his break on the Blue Collar Comedy tour and a subsequent series on Viacom 's Comedy Central.
Friedman, born into a blue collar family in New York City in 1912, was most recently a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Jeff Foxworthy, another Blue Collar Comedy alum, scored big on the small screen hosting the FOX game show, Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?
"They're a different team without Derrick Rose obviously, but this is a blue collar team, a hard-working team and they rely really on their defense, " Johnson said.
And with help from West, Blue Collar is full of big, hooky beats with soul samples and rippling guitars, as well as some less typical hip-hop fair.
At one point, the BLS listed some 200 jobs as blue collar that ran the gamut from auto mechanics to crane operators, from garbage collection to pest control.
When failing to connect with the blue collar lovers of Nascar motor racing, he said he didn't follow the sport but some of his friends owned teams.
My father was a blue collar city worker at the water filtration plant, and my family lived in a teeny little apartment on the South Side of Chicago.
That alone is bad news for Barack Obama, at a time when blue collar and union support has fallen significantly enough from 2008 levels to cause a wave of worry.
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More and more younger workers are no longer willing to work for low wages in blue collar positions, and the high costs of real estate are pricing low-cost manufacturing out of China.
And since the Rajaratnam jury is made up of a number of working class and blue collar individuals, the prosecution is trying to avoid any link between Blankfein and the deteriorating economy.
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The campaign has been targeting groups that have supported Clinton in the past, like the elderly, blue collar union workers and people of color, even though Obama has strong support in the latter group.
Consider stand-up acts like the Larry the Cable Guy and Ron White, both of whom got their break on the Blue Collar Comedy tour and a subsequent series on the Viacom-owned Comedy Central channel.
Consider Larry the Cable Guy, who got his break on the Blue Collar Comedy tour and a subsequent series on Viacom 's (nyse: VIA - news - people ) Comedy Central.
Earlier this year he began packaging together on certain nights three of the four members of what was once the popular Blue Collar Comedy troupe, offering fans three comedians for the price of one.
Representative-Elect MURPHY: Well, I've been very blessed in that, you know, I'm someone that grew up in a rural home in far northeast Philadelphia, part of the district where it's a very blue collar neighborhood.
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