Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

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• ISBN13: 9780143117469
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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work Overview

A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands

Called "the sleeper hit of the publishing season" (The Boston Globe), Shop Class as Soulcraft became an instant bestseller, attracting readers with its radical (and timely) reappraisal of the merits of skilled manual labor. On both economic and psychological grounds, author Matthew B. Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning everyone into a "knowledge worker," based on a misguided separation of thinking from doing. Using his own experience as an electrician and mechanic, Crawford presents a wonderfully articulated call for self-reliance and a moving reflection on how we can live concretely in an ever more abstract world.

Customer Reviews

While reading Matthew B. Crawford 's Shop Class Soulcraft: a survey on the value of work in a session feel like a carburetor flooded. I had to bring this book to write three paragraphs? I wrongly assumed it was a self-help book. Owner of Shockoe Motorcycles, motorcycle repair shop only for the way in Richmond, Crawford - as well as being close and to release the book this year - maybe a guy interesting, concise some ideas on how to value"The important work" I thought. My floodeth carburetor over.

If you are interested in social progress, then Shop Class A must read. If you're in the local movement to Richard Florida's Creative Class "you do not like what this book has to say based involved. Matt Crawford is Dilbert intellectual steroids. He ably demonstrates the absurdity of white-collar jobs "and" perversions "and errors of managers and teachers, the knowledge capital is the solution for believingpost-industrial society. "True knowledge through the comparison with real things created," says Crawford. Instead of preaching his message, he illustrates his arguments by describing the tasks of real-life, abstracts from writing for magazines in the cabin very much, the service in place for an academic think tank for the reconstruction of a motorcycle. Yes, he says that every step.

Above all, this book is a great observation. Despite numerous references to philosophers, economists, contemporaryHR and team-building measures (including the powerful notes of 24 pages), it is easy to cause a boy, the smell of the difference between a misfire in the ignition of a boomerang from a mixture too lean can hear. A philosopher-time instrument, if to blow away a portion of high air pressure than spraying WD-40 spray against athlete's foot powder (for oil leaks visible knows that if he has not already), Crawford's comments as a well-oiled machine. The combination of storetalk ("do not flatter old bikes, to teach them to learn") and Sage advice ("If you go to college, a profession in the summer ... I'm less likely to damage") could make this book a classic. It 's a sin, the position of U.S. Secretary of Labor is not a "real job" that require real expertise manual Crawford would be perfect. Shop class is brilliant (but not in a sort of way Einstein, MC - know what I mean).

- Tom Field

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