Modifies a noun

• worker: Yet the people who score much higher on the stress indices are blue-collar workers.

• job: He was a hard man, quick with his fists, the only law on many blue-collar jobs.

• background: His parents, while educated, came from fairly blue-collar backgrounds.

• town: Raised in the blue-collar town of Beaumont, in East Texas, Dayton had his musical influences on his doorstep.

• life: But to see if I could improve upon the levels of complexity that telly used to animate blue-collar lives.

• counterpart: Of removing the their blue-collar counterparts a payment to benefit design to.