Mike Rose, The Mind at Work (Penguin 2004) — embodied cognition in skilled trades is invisible to outsiders

Claim: Mike Rose's The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker (Penguin, 2004) is the cognitive-science companion to Crawford's polemic. Rose argues — through close ethnographic study of carpenters, welders, hairstylists, waitresses, plumbers, and electricians — that physical trades work involves substantial planning, diagnostic reasoning, real-time problem-solving, and embodied cognition that is invisible to observers from outside the trade.

Source: Rose, Mike. The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker. Penguin, 2004.

Confidence: Verified (primary text).

For Candid: The implication is identity-level: GCs do not experience themselves as anti-intellectual; they experience themselves as embedded in a different intellectual tradition, one whose competence is inspectable and durable rather than abstract and probabilistic. Together with [[crawford-shop-class-cognitive-richness-trades]], [[lubrano-limbo-blue-collar-vs-white-collar]], and [[williams-white-working-class-hard-work-asymmetry]], the four texts compose the cultural-identity foundation Candid should treat as load-bearing.