The Life of the Working Man In the 1978 film by Paul Schrader, "Blue Collar," the relationship between the blue-collar worker and his union is explored. The film takes the side of the working man and exposes the union for what it is really doing. It is keeping the working class down by keeping it divided. There are many signifiers in the film that explain what the characters, the union, and what the blue-collar life is …showed first 75 words of 1180 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1180 total…last shot of the movie. It reiterates the whole point of the movie and the philosophy of the union portrayed in the movie. The union is trying to keep the working class down by keeping it divided. The union pits blacks against whites and workers against workers just so that the working class cannot build up the strength to move forward. The men are slaves to the union and have no power to change it.