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What does blue-collar mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word blue-collar? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Working class; engaged or trained in essentially manual labor.
  2. Pertaining to the culture of blue-collar workers.
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Obviously, this applies not only to blue-collar factory workers, but to people who work in offices or the service sector.
Both are blue-collar workers, and both have enough size, strength and savvy to clog up the middle.
There have also been large numbers of blue-collar workers in service and garment industries.
Sauer's study is noteworthy because of its emphasis on blue-collar workers at risk.
It depicts a blue-collar worker, but it's afraid to show the work she'd actually do.
The Tokyo economy grew so fast in the 1980s that the city faced a shortage of blue-collar workers.

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