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Title
The Case for Working with Your Hands: or Why Office Work is Bad
ISBN
9780670918744
Publication Year
2010
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
The Case for Working with Your Hands: or Why Office Work Is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good
Item Height
216mm
Author
Matthew Crawford
Publisher
Penguin Books LTD
Topic
Popular Philosophy, Opinion of the People
Item Width
144mm
Item Weight
384g
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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Why do some jobs offer fulfilment while others leave us frustrated? Why do we so often think of our working selves as separate from our 'true' selves? Over the course of the twentieth century, we have separated mental work from manual labour, replacing the workshop with either the office cubicle or the factory line. In this inspiring and persuasive book, Matthew Crawford explores the dangers of this false distinction and presents instead the case for working with your hands. He brings to life the immense psychological and intellectual satisfactions of making and fixing things, explores the moral benefits of a technical education and, at a time when jobs are increasingly being outsourced over the internet, argues that the skilled manual trades may be one of the few sure paths to a good 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, Crawford delivers a radical, timely and extremely enjoyable re-evaluation of our attitudes to work.

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9780670918744
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Book Title
The Case for Working with Your Hands: or Why Office Work Is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good
Author
Matthew Crawford
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Popular Philosophy, Opinion of the People
Publication Year
2010
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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216mm
Item Width
144mm
Item Weight
384g

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