Rosie
This was Roise's Occupation in 1950's.
What is a waitress?
Who is Joe?
Rose’s uncle, who was a mechanic.
This skill allows a worker like Rosie to remember which customers ordered which meals.
What is Memory?
This is the main type of intelligence Rose argues is often overlooked in blue-collar and service work.
What is practical or workplace intelligence?
What is the central idea of Rose’s argument?
Blue-collar and service work requires complex intellectual, physical, and social skills.
Rose says workers make quick decisions and adjustments while performing routine tasks. This is an example of what skill?
What is Problem-solving or adaptability?
Rose argues that having less of this does not mean a person has less intelligence.
What is formal education?
How do workers learn according to Rose?
Through experience, watching others, practicing, and working with people.
Name one skill or responsibility Joe demonstrated.
Paint chemistry, improving machinery, budgeting, and negotiating.
Rose says that using tools effectively requires workers to understand what a tool can do, consider different variables, and sometimes use it in an unexpected way. What skill is this?
What is Judgment?
What does Rose use to show hidden intelligence?
Research and personal observation.
What does Rose use to make hidden intelligence visible?
Research and personal observation.
What ability do carpenters, mechanics, and hairstylists all use?
What is observation or perception?
What does society often separate when thinking about work?
The mind from the body.What is thinking-in-motion?
What is the main idea of Rose’s argument?
Blue-collar and service jobs require thinking, physical skills, and social skills.
What does society often separate when thinking about work?
The mind from the body.
Rose argues that workers use planning, communication, problem-solving, math, reading, and physical skills together while completing their jobs. What larger point does this support?
Blue-collar work requires significant intellectual ability, even though it does not require much formal education.
What skills are involved in physical work?
Motor skills, spatial reasoning, sensory awareness, communication, measuring, and calculating.
What is the key takeaway from the presentation?
Intelligence can be practical, social, sensory, and learned through experience—not only measured by credentials.