The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker (平装)

基本信息出版社:Penguin (Non-Classics) (2005年7月26日)平装:288页正文语种:英语ISBN:0143035576条形码:9780143035572产品尺寸及重量:19 x 13 x 1.5 cm ; 182 gASIN:0143035576

商品描述内容简介As did the national bestsellerNickel 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.媒体推荐A groundbreaking study…Extraordinarily moving, never dogmatic. Rose’s book puts an important piece of the U.S.’s social puzzle in bold relief. --Publishers Weekly

An excellent corrective to the limited way that many of us understand intelligence --Newsday

Clear. Compelling. A celebration of blue-collar laborers; a family memoir; a learned treatise about different kinds of intelligence. --Steve Weinberg, member of the National Book Critics Circle,The Denver Post

Eloquent tribute to our working men and women. It knocked me out. --Studs Terkel

Like Walt Whitman, Mike Rose celebrates the many forms that intelligence can take in a democracy. --David Tyack, Vida Jacks Professor of Education, Stanford University, author ofSeeking Common Ground

Rose is saying something profound about democracy. --Howard Zinn, author ofA People’s History of the United States

Rose wants to redeem [physical work]…he succeeds mightily. --San Francisco Chronicle

Thanks to Mike Rose’s impressive eye, the accomplishments of these workers are now visible. --Howard Gardner, Author ofCHANGING MINDS

This book is brilliant, exciting, and essential.. --Michael B. Katz, author ofThe Undeserving Poor

Uplifting… shows a rare capacity to weave together elements of autobiography with the role of class in American education. --Houston Chronicle