Meaning : Of or designating manual industrial work or workers.
Of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers.
The coal miner's son aspired to a white-collar occupation as a bookkeeper.Meaning : Of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers.
Example :
Party of the propertyless proletariat.
Synonyms : propertyless, wage-earning, working-class
Blue-collar meaning in Telugu.