ERODING FACTORY-JOB BASE LEAVES VALLEY BATTLING ... BLUE-COLLAR BLUES.
Byline: Story by Brent Brent, outer borough (1991 pop. 226,100) of Greater London, SE England. The area is a rail and industrial center. Its manufactures include automobile parts, clocks and watches, and electrical equipment. Hopkins Staff Writer
For years, manufacturing jobs in the Valley offered blue-collar workers blue-collar worker n → obrero/a
blue-collar worker n → ouvrier/ère col bleu
blue-collar worker n → the key to earnings a good, middle-class living. Not any more. Now the factory jobs that weathered previous economic storms are being outsourced, downsized and automated au·to·mate
v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates
v.tr.
1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory.
2. out of existence.
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