Robert "Big Red" Rankin is a retired chemical worker and union leader from the blue-collar city of Carson, south of Los Angeles, who recently attended the state party convention in San Jose.
They include the predominantly black union of garbage-collectors, whose leader, Pete Matthews, feels the mayor has not treated the city's blue-collar workers with respect.
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It goes something like this (cue the Eminem music): hard-scrapple, blue-collar city, devastated by the recession, pulls together to be lifted up by their baseball team.
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Michelle, her dad worked as a blue-collar worker for the City of Chicago.
And I share this often -- as many of you know, my father was a blue-collar worker at the city water plant.
They're the values that so many of us were raised with, including myself. (Applause.) I told this story earlier, but my father was a blue-collar worker at the city water plant.
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Even the employment is more white-collar than is typical for the area, with the City Council being the largest single employer in a seat lacking any heavy industry.
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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.
Mr DeLillo sends them to the far corners of the land, too not just to New York and Chicago and the big- city, blue-collar world that Mr DeLillo knows so well, but to Phoenix and Los Alamos, Los Angeles and the southern Californian sprawl.
Plyer believes the priority for the entire region lies in restoring the higher-paid blue-collar and middle-class jobs that for decades have disappeared from the city.
All eight teenagers were from Warren, a mostly blue-collar city of 41, 000 near the Pennsylvania line, about 60 miles east of Cleveland.
If judges want to give out community service hours to white-collar felons then have these guys serve meals to the homeless or teach inner-city kids.
Mr Maloney started a new campaign at the end of last month in the car park of an abandoned Chinese restaurant in Waterbury, a struggling blue-collar city.
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.
It was built in the 1920s as a modest holiday destination for blue-collar workers arriving by train from New York, but by the time of the jet age, the city had fallen into complete disrepair.
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