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

Category: Politics & Social Sciences, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: J. S. Cooper, Kate L. Turabian
Publisher: Richard Nelson Bolles
Published: 2018-11-01
Writer: Thomas Flintham
Language: Afrikaans, French, Yiddish, Polish
Format: epub, Kindle Edition

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work (Matthew B. Crawford) • The Worthy House - This is not a book about how you can make more money as a plumber than by going to law school.  It is, rather, a book of philosophy, revolving around thoughts on alienation, self-reliance, and what we owe to others.  I found it to be both a bit rambling and unexpectedly deep—it manages to connect the thoughts of Marx with those of Aristotle, and it combines practical thoughts on how one should earn one’s bread with advice for living a whole life.  The net effect is worthwhile, though not earthshattering. The project of the author, Matthew Crawford, is to argue for the value of work “that is meaningful because it is genuinely useful.”  Although the manual trades exemplify centering your life around meaningful work, such work is not confined to someone employed in the manual trades.  Any time we rely on our own efforts with real things and are “master of our own stuff,” we exemplify self-reliance, which is a form of individual agency and creates meaning.  Not doing genuinely useful work and no

Shop Class as Soulcraft — Matthew B. Crawford - Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work (The Penguin Press, 2009). Winner of the Borders Original Voices Award for Nonfiction New York ...

Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford: 9780143117469 | Books - A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands  "This is a deep exploration of craftsmanship by someone with real, hands-on

Shop Class as Soulcraft - Our rejection of craftsmanship wrongly ignores the cognitive, social, and remunerative rewards of skilled manual work, and wrongly assumes that white-collar work always engages the mind. Matthew B. Crawford recounts life as a motorcycle mechanic and makes a case for the manual trades.

Making Things Work (Published 2009) - An encomium to the blue-collar mastery of manual skills, by a political philosophy who can rebuild VW engines.

Shop Class as Soulcraft Quotes by Matthew B. Crawford - 71 quotes from Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work: ‘The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through

Shop Class as Soulcraft - A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands Called "the

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work | - A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands "This is a deep exploration of craftsmanship by someone with real, hands-on knowledge. The book is also quirky, surprising, and sometimes quite moving." —Richard Sennett, author of The CraftsmanCalled "the sleeper hit of the publishing season" by The Boston Globe, Shop…

Book Review: Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value ... - Dec 18, 2009 ... Author/mechanic Matthew Crawford defends trade work as more cognitively stimulating than society recognizes. Sometimes a book comes when ...

'Soulcraft' Honors An Honest Day's Work - Matthew Crawford was on what most people would think was the "right track." Then he left his job as executive director at a think tank in Washington to open a motorcycle repair shop. In his new book, Shop Class as Soulcraft, he makes the case that our society has placed too great a value on white-collar work and not enough value on the trades.

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