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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work By Matthew B. Crawford Penguin; 320 pages...
...funny thing happened on the way to the knowledge economy, writes Matthew Crawford: we somehow got stupider. Globalization and technology are doing to white collar jobs in the 21st century what the assembly line did to trades in the 20th--turning them into repetitive, menial, dissatisfying tasks. "Wherever the separation of thinking from doing has been achieved," he writes, "it has been responsible for the degradation of work." Crawford, a political-philosophy Ph.D. and motorcycle-shop owner, stresses the importance of the manual trades and the cognitive challenge of working with solid things (preferably grimy, metal ones). He packs plenty...
Patrick Gavin (11:19 p.m.) CHASE CRAWFORD MAY STILL...
Patrick Gavin (11:15 p.m.) CHASE CRAWFORD TURNED DOWN AT DOOR
...David Carr (2 p.m.) Gossip boy chace crawford, the A list of the B list of #nerdprom just walked out, at same time as prom king todd palin...