blue-collar

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“Learn a Trade” isn’t just a rallying cry for younger generations to skip college and pursue in-demand blue-collar work.

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One day I went with a friend to a tap room not far from Bremerton, the blue-collar town across the water from Seattle where I live.

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The aesthetic’s moment has grown beyond its blue-collar roots.

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Based in Salinas, Calif., a blue-collar city outside of Monterey, the floors of Pacific Valley are frequently covered in dirt that farmers track in, dressed in Wrangler jeans and work boots.

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The author also describes the formative decades when Mr. Sanders—born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to unhappy blue-collar Jewish parents—scrapped his way through high school and college before moving to rural Vermont in 1968.

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