出版社: Penguin Press
副标题: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
出版年: 2009-5-28
页数: 256
定价: USD 25.95
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781594202230
内容简介 · · · · · ·
Shop Class as Soulcraft brings alive an experience that was once quite ordinary, but now seems to be receding over the cultural horizon—the experience of making and fixing things. Working with your hands, as Mathew B. Crawford describes it, connects us to the world around us. Those of us who sit in an office often have intuitions of something gone amiss, a sense of unreality ac...
Shop Class as Soulcraft brings alive an experience that was once quite ordinary, but now seems to be receding over the cultural horizon—the experience of making and fixing things. Working with your hands, as Mathew B. Crawford describes it, connects us to the world around us. Those of us who sit in an office often have intuitions of something gone amiss, a sense of unreality accompanied by feelings of impotence. What, after all, do we do all day? In this wholly original debut, Crawford offers a brief for self-reliance and a sustained reflection on this problem: how to live concretely in an ever more abstract world. Shop Class as Soulcraft seeks to restore the honor of the manual trades as a life worth choosing for anyone who felt hustled off to college, then to the cubicle, against their own inclinations and natural bents. On both economic and psychological grounds, Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning everyone into a “knowledge worker.” This imperative, he explains, is based on a misguided separation of thinking from doing, the work of the hand from that of the mind. Crawford shows in precise detail how such a partition, which began a century ago with the assembly line, degrades work for those on both sides of the divide.
But he offers good news as well: The manual trades are very different from factory work. They require a lot of thinking and may even give rise to moments of genuine pleasure. Based on his own experience as an electrician and mechanic, Crawford makes a case for the intrinsic satisfactions and cognitive challenges— the soulcraft—of manual work. The work of builders and mechanics cannot be outsourced. They tie us to the local communities in which we live and instill the pride that comes from doing work that is genuinely useful.
Speaking squarely to a culture that continues to grapple for a way to reconcile work and life and to find fulfilling work of all stripes, Shop Class as Soulcraft offers inspired social criticism and deep personal exploration. It will change your understanding of the value of work and the work of bringing value and meaning to your life, whatever you do now or hope to do one day.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Matthew B. Crawford is a philosopher and motorcycle mechanic. After receiving a degree in physics from U.C. Santa Barbara, he worked as an electrician. He then received a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Chicago and served as a postdoctoral fellow on the Committee on Social Thought, also at the University of Chicago. Crawford is currently a fellow at the Ins...
Matthew B. Crawford is a philosopher and motorcycle mechanic. After receiving a degree in physics from U.C. Santa Barbara, he worked as an electrician. He then received a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Chicago and served as a postdoctoral fellow on the Committee on Social Thought, also at the University of Chicago. Crawford is currently a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and he owns and operates Shockoe Moto, an independent motorcycle repair shop in Richmond, Virginia.
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1 有用 五月更生 2018-02-06 01:15:02
Crawford 在这本书中对 knowledge worker 工作实质的分析读来真的心有戚戚焉。不过按照他的分析,这类工作”弱智化“(dumbing down)恐怕是当代企业甚或是社会的系统问题,几乎无法避免。Crawford 本人逍遥遁入摩托车维修行,根本不关心还在干糟心工作的白领”我该怎么办“的问题。抛开试图解决问题的心态,读本书中 Crawford 的批判和分析只觉得酣畅。但如果还是想要... Crawford 在这本书中对 knowledge worker 工作实质的分析读来真的心有戚戚焉。不过按照他的分析,这类工作”弱智化“(dumbing down)恐怕是当代企业甚或是社会的系统问题,几乎无法避免。Crawford 本人逍遥遁入摩托车维修行,根本不关心还在干糟心工作的白领”我该怎么办“的问题。抛开试图解决问题的心态,读本书中 Crawford 的批判和分析只觉得酣畅。但如果还是想要入世,还是多看看 Cal Newport 比较好╮(╯▽╰)╭ (展开)
0 有用 冷库鲨首 2018-07-23 14:08:58
鬼迷心窍滤镜加半星 4.5
0 有用 Manchild 2014-10-11 00:22:18
劝退佳作。
0 有用 梦溪 2015-04-21 14:44:53
充满了男性masculinity的味道,后半部分比前半部分堪读,想到当年工作时那种cubicle drone的感觉似曾相识,quit the job也算明智之举。
0 有用 蛋吉吉 2021-06-20 20:02:12
哈哈,interesting ideas, not complete though
0 有用 维那个尼 2022-07-22 18:30:58
较为浅显的批判+没有可行的方案=读着图个一乐
0 有用 Charlsy 2021-12-23 03:49:09
I want to like it more than I do…though I mostly agree with the author, a lot of times it also feels like unfounded moans
0 有用 蛋吉吉 2021-06-20 20:02:12
哈哈,interesting ideas, not complete though
0 有用 Mirabelle 2020-12-12 22:10:49
“the kind of appreciative attention where one remains focused on what one is doing can arise only in leisure activities", so true
3 有用 colobigbow 2020-04-20 16:31:39
我觉得这本书是相当好看的,欧洲的名字是‘为什么办公室工作对我们是不好的,而修理东西和动手弄东西是好的’。这本书直接扣问现在人们在service economy下作为knowledge worker的生存状态,以及扣问我们现在的教育制度that value knowledge work。我们与我们使用的物体被alienation是不对的。读起来,可以看到作者深入浅出,引用了很多社会学等大家的观点和文... 我觉得这本书是相当好看的,欧洲的名字是‘为什么办公室工作对我们是不好的,而修理东西和动手弄东西是好的’。这本书直接扣问现在人们在service economy下作为knowledge worker的生存状态,以及扣问我们现在的教育制度that value knowledge work。我们与我们使用的物体被alienation是不对的。读起来,可以看到作者深入浅出,引用了很多社会学等大家的观点和文字,但是用很简单的语言表达出来(这才对嘛!简单了,很多人读了,知识和观点传播了,才有意义嘛)。 (展开)