A blue-collar worker is a person who performs manual labor or skilled trades. Originating and used most frequently in the United States, the term 'Blue-collar work' may involve skilled or unskilled la
A mechanic at work wearing blue coveralls
A welder making boilers at the Combustion Engineering Company in Chattanooga, Tennessee in June 1942. Despite their name, blue-collar workers do not always or typically wear blue shirts.
Workers constructing a photovoltaic system in Zugspitze, Germany
A textile factory outside Dhaka, Bangladesh
A pink-collar worker is someone working in career fields historically considered to be women's work. This includes many clerical, administrative, and service jobs as well as care-oriented jobs in ther
Blue-collar worker
…worker typically performs work in an office environment and may involve sitting at a computer or desk. A third type of work is a service worker (pink collar) whose labor is related to customer interaction, entertainment, sales or other service-oriented work — particularly those service jobs that have been…
A special education teacher assists one of her students
A World War II-era recruiting poster seeking women for clerical work
A United States Navy recruiting poster from World War II, showing an officer of the Navy WAVES before a hospital ship
This poster made in 1942 titled "We Can Do It!" captures the WWII era cultural icon Rosie the Riveter depicted by J. Howard Miller who created this poster as an inspirational image to boost female worker morale.