Shop Class as Soulcraft Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Matthew B. Crawford
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
153

Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford Book Summary

A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands 

“This is a deep exploration of craftsmanship by someone with real, hands-on knowledge. The book is also quirky, surprising, and sometimes quite moving.” —Richard Sennett, author of The Craftsman

Called “the sleeper hit of the publishing season” by The Boston Globe, Shop Class as Soulcraft became an instant bestseller, attracting readers with its radical (and timely) reappraisal of the merits of skilled manual labor. 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.

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Book Name Shop Class as Soulcraft
Genre Philosophy
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 1.07 MB

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Interesting. The book had it's great moments when equating the value of labor as a mechanic. It was also fun to tear at the societal beliefs that college is a must. However, I don't understand motorcycle repair (the setting of the book) and I felt the conclusions were vague.

Insightful read. This book was very well written. Offers a lot of insight in an accessible, entertaining format.

From hand 2 head. Crawford is an iconoclast, a philosopher, and distinctly not an ideologue. He makes a provocative and delightful argument for the intellectual value of working with your hands to solve problems not in theory but in the real world of people and objects. The book is also perhaps surprisingly a very honest account of the author's own intellectual growth. This book will be satisfying to anyone who has passed through the halls of academia or the offices of K Street and seen the dishonesty of those who work too far removed from the messiness of the real world where theory or a neat statistical model just can't fix a proverbial motorbike. I hope Crawford keeps writing in this style. He is the kind of thinker Malcolm Gladwell wishes he could be.

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Summary of Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford

The Shop Class as Soulcraft book written by Matthew B. Crawford was published on 28 May 2009, Thursday in the Philosophy category. A total of 153 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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