Price: $30.35 (as of 2014-03-03 - Details)
Used Book in Good Condition. Starred Review. Philosopher and motorcycle repair-shop owner Crawford extols the value of making and fixing things in this masterful paean to what he calls manual competence, the ability to work with oneÖs hands. According to the author, our alienation from how our possessions are made and how they work takes many forms: the decline of shop class, the design of goods whose workings cannot be accessed by users (such as recent Mercedes models built without oil dipsticks) and the general disdain with which we regard the trades in our emerging information economy.
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work (Thorndike Nonfiction) Feature
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