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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)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Case for Working with Your HandsFor too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a desk. 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, the author intends to change the way you think about work forever.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Published: 01 January 2011
- Format: Paperback 256 pages
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- Categories: Social & Cultural Anthropology | Occupational & Industrial Psychology | Social & Political Philosophy | Personal Development
- ISBN 13: 9780141047294 ISBN 10: 0141047291
- Sales rank: 18,149
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Full description for The Case for Working with Your Hands
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.
