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The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker

par Mike Rose

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Featuring a new preface for the 10th anniversary As did the national bestseller Nickel and Dimed, Mike Rose's revelatory book demolishes the long-held notion that people who work with their hands make up a less intelligent class. He shows us waitresses making lightning-fast calculations, carpenters handling complex spatial mathematics, and hairdressers, plumbers, and electricians with their aesthetic and diagnostic acumen.  Rose, an educator who is himself the son of a waitress, explores the intellectual repertory of everyday workers and the terrible social cost of undervaluing the work they do. Deftly combining research, interviews, and personal history, this is one of those rare books that has the capacity both to shape public policy and to illuminate general readers.… (plus d'informations)
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This is a great book. It's a serious and scholarly, as well as entertaining appreciation of the kinds of skills and intelligence that go into "blue collar" work. I particularly loved the chapters on carpentry and on welding, but the whole thing is well worth one's time. I think this would be an amazing resource for writing teachers who want to interest "vocational" students in the art of writing. It's a great opportunity to talk about both sets of skills. ( )
  sskwire | Oct 5, 2009 |
I was reading the first chapter of The Mind at Work when I knew I had to write a review. A waitress was describing how she liked it better when she was busy, when tasks started to pile up she would get in the groove and do her best work. I worked for a dozen years as an automobile mechanic and that statement is exactly what I experienced. So much in the book rang true to my twenty-five years of experience in the "unskilled" work world. The co-operation found between workers whose pay is set up to make them competitors, the young carpenters learning their tools so well that they become extensions of their hands, learning to handle the variations in routine jobs like rusted and corroded bolts. Mike Rose gets it that the hands and the mind are connected and that jobs our culture assumes are mindless require a great deal of thought and skill. As someone who abandoned auto repair as a way to make a living because I grew tired of people taking one look at my callused hands and tuning me out, I think that more than just the educators it is aimed at should read this book.
My one issue with the book is a few undocumented quotes. One on page 160 from labor historian David Montgomery I would have liked to look up. Of course what I see as a lack of documentation but that could just be the oversensitivity of an over fifty undergraduate student. ( )
  TLCrawford | Mar 22, 2008 |
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Featuring a new preface for the 10th anniversary As did the national bestseller Nickel and Dimed, Mike Rose's revelatory book demolishes the long-held notion that people who work with their hands make up a less intelligent class. He shows us waitresses making lightning-fast calculations, carpenters handling complex spatial mathematics, and hairdressers, plumbers, and electricians with their aesthetic and diagnostic acumen.  Rose, an educator who is himself the son of a waitress, explores the intellectual repertory of everyday workers and the terrible social cost of undervaluing the work they do. Deftly combining research, interviews, and personal history, this is one of those rare books that has the capacity both to shape public policy and to illuminate general readers.

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