book rec: Shop Class as Soulcraft

[evandael]

reading this for a social science gen. ed. course, and it's quite good. i feel it would resonate with many of you.

A philosopher / mechanic destroys the pretensions of the high-prestige workplace and makes an irresistible case for working with one’s hands.

Shop Class as Soulcraft brings alive an experience that was once quite common, but now seems to be receding from society: making and fixing things. Those of us who sit in an office often feel a lack of connection to the material world and find it difficult to say exactly what we do all day. For anyone who felt hustled off to college, then to the cubicle, against their own inclinations and natural bents, Shop Class as Soulcraft seeks to restore the honor of the manual trades as a life worth choosing.

i got my copy from amazon, used, for like $5. worth it.

[Farbin Kaiber]

I read it about 18 months ago, suggested it then, it's a great book. I got a few r3v members interested in it at that time, I bet a good convo could come of this thread.

[e30e]

reading this for a social science gen. ed. course, and it's quite good. i feel it would resonate with many of you.








i got my copy from amazon, used, for like $5. worth it.

Wrote part of my senior ag ed thesis on this book. Great book, part of the reason I feel America has lost its way is because we don't "BUILD" anything anymore.

[Cloudbase]

Great book. Loved it!