Opinion: From retail to coding and gigs, today’s work is varied in ways politicians overlook in speaking of white- and blue-collar jobs, writes AndyKessler
“Give me a job, give me security / Give me a chance to survive / I’m just a poor soul in the unemployment line / My God, I’m hardly alive / . . . I’m gonna be a blue collar man.” So sang Styx in 1978. Now headlines blare “Joe Biden Makes Appeal to Blue-Collar Workers.” But is that a unified voting class anymore?
The moniker was born 95 years ago when the Times newspaper in Alden, Iowa, suggested, “If we may call professions and office positions white collar jobs, we may call the trades blue collar jobs.” It stuck. In “The...
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