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Shop Class As Soul Craft
"Matthew Crawford was on what most people would think was the "right track."
Then he left his job as executive director at a think tank in Washington to
open a motorcycle repair shop. In his book, Shop Class as Soulcraft, he makes
the case that our society has placed too great a value on white-collar work
and not enough value on the trades. Crawford tells host Guy Raz that the
mechanical arts have a special significance for our time because they
cultivate the less glamorous virtue of attentiveness."
More in this NPR piece.
