In America most people generally think that blue collar workers are less intelligent than white collar or professional workers. Sadly this commonly held belief is just as prevalent today as it has ever been. In spite of the fact that there is evidence to the contrary this assumption still causes people to be stereotyped and treated differently. Mike Rose‚ in his article “Blue-Collar Brilliance”‚ reprinted in “They Say‚ I Say”‚ provides both personal examples and results of clinical tests that
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consider blue-collar workers unintelligent and uneducated. Blue-collar workers are seen in this perspective because of their hands on jobs in which many individuals assume that intelligence is not required. “Our cultural iconography promotes the muscled arm‚ sleeve rolled right against biceps‚ but no brightness behind the eye‚ no image that links hand and brain.” (Rose 98) In Mike Rose’s text‚ he explains how being a blue-collar worker does not mean an individual is unintelligent. Rose shows how knowledge
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Mehreen 1 Mehreen Rahman ENG 101 27 January 2014 Blue-Collar Brilliance Blue collar workers are the backbone of America. In the article‚ “Blue-Collar Brilliance”‚ author Mike Rose emphasizes his belief that blue collar jobs should not be viewed as mindless tasks‚ but rather should be acknowledged for the amount of skills and intelligence these tasks truly require. What the author essentially means is that blue collar workers acquire knowledge‚ intuition‚ and skills from the social dynamics of
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Question: What are Blue-collar Workers? Blue-collar workers refer to employees performing manual labor generally‚ their jobs entails physical labor‚ such as in a factory or workshop. Blue-collar work may involve skilled or unskilled‚ manufacturing‚ mining‚ construction‚ mechanical‚ maintenance‚ technical installation and many other types of physical work. A higher level academic education is often not required for many blue-collar jobs. However‚ certain fields may require specialized
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Blue Collar Brilliance David R Miller Comp 1 Essay 1 In my observation mentally with Mr. Roses essay on blue collar brilliance‚ Mr Rose tries to tell the reader on the different levelsof work there is for high educated people opposed to the non educated. Furthermore he tries express through his family experiences in the work environment how a person with a manual labor is not so different than a person with a high level of education‚ they are equal in job to job views but not in society.
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As the rise of enrollment into university by the general population in the United States increases‚ there is still a need for blue-collar work. The stigma today that follows blue-collar work is a major prejudice held by intellectuals within the educational system. Intelligence is often only accredited to those who attend university and receive a degree‚ but this is not the case. There are different types of intelligence such as career oriented or technical intelligence and academic intelligence.
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college education does not guarantee you anything. It is not an automatic ticket to get a good job as people believe. These issues are viewed more sharpen via two writers’ point of views Mike Rose and Caroline Bird. Based on their essays‚ Rose with “Blue-Collar Brilliance” and Bird with “College is a Waste of Time and Money”‚ both suggest college is not the only way to succeed and that society mistakenly overvalues a college education. It is time to rethink the idea about college. By showing that knowledge
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economic situation in the U.S‚ graduating high school and going off to college for a degree has pretty much become the goal for most of the students here in the United States. According to the Institute of Education Sciences‚ studies have shown that between 1999 and 2009‚ the number of students in the United States perusing a degree in college full time has risen by almost 45% while part time students increased by 28%. With the vast expanding number of students‚ the number of job openings for these certain
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Blue collar workers utilize their knowledge and abilities while working just as much as white collar workers. Most people assume that blue collars only have physical attributes and possess no real knowledge. This isn’t true at all. These workers must be able to read at a decent level‚ use tools effectively and have social experience. It’s a lot harder than you think. Lots of reading occurs in the blue collar workplace. This includes catalogues‚ manuals‚ forms and instructions. Visual interpretation
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in the year 1939‚ who popularised the term ̳white collar crimes‘ by defining such a crime as one ―committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation.‖ Sutherland also included crimes committed by corporations and other legal entities within his definition. Sutherland‘s study of white collar crime was prompted by the view that criminology had incorrectly focused on social and economic determinants of crime‚ such as family background and level of wealth
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