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The Case for Working with Your Hands or Why Office Work Is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good Paperback – December 16, 2010
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It's time to rethink our attitudes to work.
For too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a desk. Generations of school-leavers head for university lacking the skills to fix or even understand the most basic technology. And yet many of us are not suited to office life, while skilled manual work provides one of the few and most rewarding paths to a secure living.
Drawing on the work of our greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Heidegger, from Karl Marx to Iris Murdoch, as well as on his own experiences as an electrician and motorcycle mechanic, Matthew Crawford's irreverent and inspiring manifesto will change the way you think about work forever.
- Print length246 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPenguin
- Publication dateDecember 16, 2010
- Dimensions0.9 x 5 x 7.6 inches
- ISBN-100141047291
- ISBN-13978-0141047294
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- Publisher : Penguin; Reprint edition (December 16, 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 246 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0141047291
- ISBN-13 : 978-0141047294
- Item Weight : 6.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 0.9 x 5 x 7.6 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #212,113 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #161 in Social Philosophy
- #571 in Cultural Anthropology (Books)
- #3,094 in Success Self-Help
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Matthew B. Crawford is a philosopher and mechanic. Currently a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, he owns and operates Shockoe Moto, an independent motorcycle repair shop in Richmond, Virginia.
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(4 Stars is for the actual book. I hate when people give 1 star beacause of this type of issue or it's not available in Kindle. Stars should be for the quality of the book itself).
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Not for those who enjoy simple reading.