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The mind at work : valuing the intelligence of the American worker

Author: Mike Rose
Publisher: New York, New York Penguin Books 2014
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : 10th anniversary edition, with a new prefaceView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mike Rose
ISBN: 9780143035572 0143035576 9780670032822 0670032824
OCLC Number: 1013739562
Description: liv, 250 pages ; 20 cm
Contents: The Working Life of a Waitress --
Styling Hair --
The Intelligence of Plumbing --
A Vocabulary of Carpentry --
Reflective Technique: Electrical Wiring and Construction --
Two Lives: A Welder and a Foreman --
Rethinking Hand and Brain --
Hand and Brain in School: The Paradox of Vocational Education.
Responsibility: 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.

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"Rose is saying something profound about democracy." -Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States"Eloquent tribute to our working men and women. It knocked me out." -Studs Read more...

 
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