Shop Class as Soulcraft (Crawford - paperback)

Author: Matthew B. Crawford

ISBN: 9780143117469

Binding: paperback

Section: Philos/Rhet/Logic

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.