Through experience, knowledge, and personal observations, Mike Rose claims that contrary to popular beliefs Blue Collar workers are as smart, critical, and strategic as white collar worker if not more. Rose acknowledges that when people hear the words blue collar they automatically think of muscles, rolled up sleeves, but no “brightness behind the eye, no image that links hand and brain”(Rose). Rose is saying that people just see blue collar workers as tools just using their body to do a job without any sort of brain function. People value them for their hard work, dedication, and perseverance but not their intelligence. The author states that we tend to overlook the math, literacy, perception, that blue collar workers endure because it's
