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.
This was the name Rosie used for the restaurant's fast-turnover front section.
What is the RaceTrack?
Joe said that the shop floor felt like this becuase he was constantly learning.
What is schooling?
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.
Rosie became interested in this field while working as a waitress.
What is Psychology?
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?
Rose challenges the common idea that this is mainly about grades, IQ scores, and academic achievement.
What is intelligence?
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.
Joe introduced this change on the assembly line so workers could learn each other’s jobs and rotate between stations, helping reduce monotony and provide more breaks.
What is job rotation?
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.
In the passage, Rosie says that working smart meant making every move count by doing these two things with her tasks before solving problems that arose during her shift.
What are sequencing and grouping her tasks?
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.