Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
Categories: History
Shop Class as Soulcraft is a 2009 book by Matthew B. Crawford, a political philosopher who left a think-tank job to run a motorcycle repair shop. He argues for the intellectual and moral value of skilled manual work and criticizes the decline of shop classes and the shift toward abstract office work, drawing on his own experience as a mechanic.
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- Fareed Zakaria: “This is a fun read. It's a kind of meditation on work and what makes you satisfied... It's a really interesting book.”