Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark C. Perna is a generational expert who covers education & careers. The skilled trades have a branding problem—but ...

Many blue-collar workers are riding into 2024 on a year’s worth of stronger hiring, more plentiful job opportunities and faster pay growth than some of their white-collar counterparts. Subscribe to ...

For ages now, the divide between blue-collar "working class" professionals and degree-holding "white-collar" career types has seemed to grow ever more contentious, and ever more politically impactful, ...

According to the website USLegal, blue-collar workers are defined as working-class physical laborers in certain fields, such as skilled tradespeople, factory employees and construction workers.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. In its latest report, Resume Genius gives a rundown of the ...

Key point: While a recession “would reduce the labor shortages problem for a few years,” the report finds that “Blue-collar labor shortages will likely continue through at least 2030.” The Conference ...