The case for working with your hands, or, why office work is bad for us and fixing things feels good /
Crawford, Matthew B.
The case for working with your hands, or, why office work is bad for us and fixing things feels good / Why office work is bad for us and fixing things feels good Matthew Crawford. - London : Viking, 2010. - 246 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Includes index.
A brief case for the useful arts -- The separation of thinking from doing -- To be master of one's own stuff -- The education of a gearhead: from amateur to professional -- The contradictions of the cubicle -- Thinking as doing -- Work, leisure, and full engagement.
Crawford speaks up for an ideal that is timeless but finds little accommodation today: manual competence. He explores the moral benefits of a technical education, and argues that the skilled manual trades may be one of the few sure paths to a good living.
9780670918744 (hbk.) 0670918741 (hbk.) 9780141047294
2010530086
GBB011856 bnb
015478815 Uk
Manual work.
Manual work--Philosophy.
Manual work--Psychological aspects.
HD4904 / .C73 2010
306.36
The case for working with your hands, or, why office work is bad for us and fixing things feels good / Why office work is bad for us and fixing things feels good Matthew Crawford. - London : Viking, 2010. - 246 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Includes index.
A brief case for the useful arts -- The separation of thinking from doing -- To be master of one's own stuff -- The education of a gearhead: from amateur to professional -- The contradictions of the cubicle -- Thinking as doing -- Work, leisure, and full engagement.
Crawford speaks up for an ideal that is timeless but finds little accommodation today: manual competence. He explores the moral benefits of a technical education, and argues that the skilled manual trades may be one of the few sure paths to a good living.
9780670918744 (hbk.) 0670918741 (hbk.) 9780141047294
2010530086
GBB011856 bnb
015478815 Uk
Manual work.
Manual work--Philosophy.
Manual work--Psychological aspects.
HD4904 / .C73 2010
306.36