Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index "Intellectual worker" (brain worker or knowledge worker) is a term used in various anarchist, communist, and socialist writings. Chomsky describes such a working class individual as, "[One] whose work happens to be more with the mind than with the hands." He then notes, "[Those] whose major professional concern is knowledge...[should] have no special opportunit[ies]...to gain any...power [or] prestige..." (Chomsky and Peck, 1987) See also: engineering of consent intellectualism References Chomsky, M., & Peck, J. (1987). The Chomsky Reader. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.