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AirTalk for September 6, 2004

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The Blue Collar Worker in America
The Blue Collar Worker in America

The Blue Collar Worker in America

The Blue Collar Worker in America

AirTalk for September 6, 2004

In his new book The Mind At Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker (Viking), Mike Rose talks about how jobs done by waitresses, plumbers, hairdressers and other blue-collar workers are not mindless at all. Rather, Rose writes that they require complex analytical and interpersonal skills that often go unappreciated by society-at-large. He joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss the blue-collar worker in America.