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Praisefor The Mind at Work

This is an eloquentas well as scholarlytribute to our working men and women. Mike Rose cites chapter and verse in revealing the skills and intelligence of those we tend to dismiss as blue collar, in service, or ordinary. It knocked me out. It makes mincemeat out of our traditional IQ tests.

Studs Terkel

Uplifting ... The world is awash with intelligence. The Mind at Work is a tribute to [his mother], to his welder uncle Frank Meraglio, and to all workers whose labor is thought of as mindless. He shows a rare capacity to weave together elements of autobiography with broader speculations about the role of class in American education. Rose is after truly big gamenothing less than breathing new life into endangered concepts of democracy in our society.

Houston Chronicle

An excellent corrective to the limited way that many of us understand intelligence ... deftly [shows] the pleasure and satisfaction people derive from the cognitive aspects of work.

Newsday

Rose wants to redeem [physical work] ... he succeeds mightily.

San Francisco Chronicle

The Mind at Work is simultaneously a celebration of blue-collar, usually lower-paid, laborers; a family memoir; and a learned treatise about different kinds of intelligence. The introduction alone is worth the price of the book, as Rose lays out his ideas in clear, often compelling language ... perhaps no author before Rose has integrated the documentation and the theory so well in such an accessible manner.

Steve Weinberg, member of the National Book Critics Circle, The Denver Post

Rose brings an openness and curiosity to his portrait of workers and a sympathetic eye to the challenges of their work. Theres no condescension, pity, sappy moralizing or manifestos of class warfare. He looks at the multitude of complex and varied skills and intellectual prowess required to complete these jobs and puts it all into context. You cant help but have an increased respect for the mental part of labor as a result. Its well worth contemplating in light of the economys ongoing evolution and the changing roles of workers.

The Miami Herald

Mike Rose startles us by suggesting that most of us have a narrow, cramped view of intelligenceone that doesnt permit us to see the complex mental feats involved in very ordinary kinds of work. His book is a refreshing reexamination of what traditionally is meant by intelligence. Conventional assumptions are overturned, and we begin to see that he is saying something profound about democracy.

Howard Zinn, author of A Peoples History of the United States

Mike Rose shows how a reductive idea of intelligence obscures the intellectual content of everyday work, devalues the intellectual capacity of workers, distorts the priorities of public education, and contracts the meaning of democracy. With vivid and compelling stories he illustrates the efforts of hard-working women and men to maintain their dignity and find satisfaction in a culture whose beliefs and institutions denigrate their accomplishments. This book is brilliant, exciting, beautifully writtenand essential.

Michael B. Katz, author of The Undeserving Poor

In the era of the symbol analyst, too many of us peer right through waiters, hair stylists, handymen and other manual workers. Thanks to Mike Roses impressive eye, the accomplishments of these workers are now visible. We have much to learn from the elegance and integrity with which such individuals approach their daily labors.

Howard Gardner, author of Changing Minds

Like Walt Whitman, Mike Rose celebrates the many forms that intelligence can take in a democracy. He reveals the depth of art and thought to be found in everyday work.

David Tyack, Vida Jacks Professor of Education, Stanford University, and author of Seeking Common Ground

We know beauticians and plumbers are smart because we hear them quipping on TV sitcoms. But Mike Rose shows us the special smarts that go into each snip of the scissor, each turn of a dangerously rusty bolt. Using brilliantly selected details from blue collar jobs, Rose analyzes the seamless weld between what we call mental and manual work and between abstract and concrete thinking. My everyday encounters with waitresses, electricians and handymen have been magically enriched since I read The Mind at Work.

Barbara Garson, author of All The Livelong Day: The Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Work

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THE MIND AT WORK

Mike Rose, a member of the faculty of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, is the award-winning author of Possible Lives and Lives on the Boundary. The son of a waitress, Rose grew up in a working class family and witnessed firsthand the skills it takes to do the manual work about which he writes. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Education, and the Commonwealth Club of California Award for Literary Excellence in Nonfiction.

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First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2004 Published in Penguin Books 2005

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The mind at work : valuing the intelligence of the American worker / Mike Rose. p. cm.

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I. Blue collar workers. 2. Mind and body. 3 Work --Psychological aspects
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