Blue-Collar Workers in My Family?
In the article, “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” the author Mike Rose explains to us that just because workers do not have so much schooling, it does not mean that they do not have the intelligence for their field of work. Rose goes on to tell us about what he has observed and analyzed through the years about blue collar workers. Rose gives us two main examples of this argument and how he has come to a conclusion of what he thinks of blue collar workers.
Rose starts off his article describing his own mother, Rosie. He describes his mother’s job of waitressing, by giving us clear of what he observed while growing up. Rose did not only observe what his mother was doing, but what the other waitresses and the cooks were doing as well. Rose explains how his mother was never fazed by the amount of orders she took, or the amount of customers that would just pile in the restaurant. He clearly states “A waitress …show more content…
Uncle Joe is Rosie’s older brother. He too dropped out of school but he left during high school. Rose describes a variety of jobs that his uncle did. According to Rose, “Joe Meraglio, left school in the ninth grade to work for Pennsylvania Railroad. From there he joined the Navy, returned to the railroad, which was already in decline, and eventually joined his older brother at General Motors” (276). Rose gives us all this information so he could explain how someone who left school go into many fields of work and still gain the knowledge, because they learned it by doing it every day and having hands on experience. Also, Rose informs us that Uncle Joe went from a simple employee on the assembly line to supervising paint jobs. Rose is explaining that his Uncle Joes intelligence was not measured by the high level education schooling that he was supposed to receive but that knowledge he gained by doing his job every day and wanting to seriously learn his
In the article, “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” the author Mike Rose explains to us that just because workers do not have so much schooling, it does not mean that they do not have the intelligence for their field of work. Rose goes on to tell us about what he has observed and analyzed through the years about blue collar workers. Rose gives us two main examples of this argument and how he has come to a conclusion of what he thinks of blue collar workers.
Rose starts off his article describing his own mother, Rosie. He describes his mother’s job of waitressing, by giving us clear of what he observed while growing up. Rose did not only observe what his mother was doing, but what the other waitresses and the cooks were doing as well. Rose explains how his mother was never fazed by the amount of orders she took, or the amount of customers that would just pile in the restaurant. He clearly states “A waitress …show more content…
Uncle Joe is Rosie’s older brother. He too dropped out of school but he left during high school. Rose describes a variety of jobs that his uncle did. According to Rose, “Joe Meraglio, left school in the ninth grade to work for Pennsylvania Railroad. From there he joined the Navy, returned to the railroad, which was already in decline, and eventually joined his older brother at General Motors” (276). Rose gives us all this information so he could explain how someone who left school go into many fields of work and still gain the knowledge, because they learned it by doing it every day and having hands on experience. Also, Rose informs us that Uncle Joe went from a simple employee on the assembly line to supervising paint jobs. Rose is explaining that his Uncle Joes intelligence was not measured by the high level education schooling that he was supposed to receive but that knowledge he gained by doing his job every day and wanting to seriously learn his