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

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

2009 • 246 pages

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A philosopher and mechanic extolls the virtues of manual labor, describing how the satisfactions and challenges of creating with one's own hands promotes a sense of connection to life that office work suppresses.

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this review was more interesting than the book http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/06/22/090622crat_atlarge_sanneh?currentPage=all

May 20, 2009
April 6, 2022

I thought it was pretty good. Different from the books I normally read and I did get bogged down a couple of times, but overall I thought it was an interesting, valuable read.

March 1, 2022