Chapter: 7 Rethinking Hand and Brain(Paul Lonergan)

In Chapter seven Rethinking Hand and Brain Mike Rose taalks about how immigrants have an unfair way or work. Mike Rose says"They were like your grandfather ,off the farm, didn't know those tool, hellnever saw a steam engine in their lives.But they learned what to do,and they coordinated what they did."(Rose 142). His uncle said that to him as he was walking out of a movie theter. Then Mike Rose goes on to talk about Fredrick winslow Taylor's bookThe principals of Scientific Managment In this he talks about how "It captures American industry's traditional seperation of managerial intelligence from worker production."(Rose 142)In this he shows how a worker named Schmidt who moves pig iron can move it faster, and quick by breaking it down to a science.He also pushes them faster and makes them work harder. Taylor makes fun of his intelligence by saying "are you a high priced man?"(Rose 143). Schmidt is confused by this question and taylor gives up and tells him to listen to the supervisor, and do exactly what he says. At this time there were no labor laws, no minimum wage,or anything haveing to do with safety so schmidt did not why he was moving iron. He did not know what he was getting paid he just did as he was told. Like most immigrants that came over they were knew very little and were used for little money, doing not the smart things like people in America were doing, but to the immigrants. Show that the real difficulties are in an office not actually physically moving equipment.

Response:I think this chapter it show how hard working people, can be used to make them work harder. and for the people in the offices to make money off the blue collar workers. I can relate to this, because two summers ago I helped build a deck, and the guy really building it would barely do the work, and all he would do was the measuring the smart work for me I guess, but i picked up all the wood sawed it and nailed it in while he just directed the operation. Mike Rose really does a great job in this chapter of showing all the aspects of blue collar and white collar work.