Summary Of Blue Collar Brilliance

In “Blue-Collar Brilliance” Mike Rose’s contests, the impression that society has about blue-collar jobs and how intelligence is somehow connected to the amount and type of schooling and individual has. Rose studies the habits of blue-collar workers and argues that these types of jobs require the use of both “body and brain” (247). Therefore, complaining about studies conducted about blue-collar workers saying that scholars are missing the concept and instead of focusing on the amount of thought, they focus on the values the workers are showing (247). He is very adamant that intelligence can be acquire in these type of workplaces and not only by attending to school. To show that knowledge can be attainable in the blue-collar jobs he uses