The case for working with your hands, or, why office work is bad for us and fixing things feels good / Matthew Crawford.
Publication details: London : Viking, 2010.Description: 246 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780670918744 (hbk.)
- 0670918741 (hbk.)
- 9780141047294
- Why office work is bad for us and fixing things feels good
- 306.36 22
- HD4904 .C73 2010
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Includes index.
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.
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.
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