Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
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![Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work](<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6493332-shop-class-as-soulcraft" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328317490l/6493332._SX98_.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6493332-shop-class-as-soulcraft">Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2847553.Matthew_B_Crawford">Matthew B. Crawford</a><br/> My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5487324417">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br /> A lot of great insights about the nature and value of different types of work. Some of my favorite quotes:<br /><blockquote>Our ability to make good judgments is holistic in character, and arises from repeated confrontations with real things: comprehensive entities that are grasped all at once, in a manner that may be incapable of explicit articulation.</blockquote><br /><br /><blockquote>[Talking about viewing reality as primarily what is your perception as opposed to what is physically in front of you:] This stance toward “established reality,” which can only be called psychedelic, is best not indulged around a table saw.</blockquote><br /><br /><blockquote>[On the need to increase consumption in order to motivate people doing piece work in their homes to become factory employees:] Contradicting the assumptions of “rational behavior,” it was found that when employers would increase the piece rate in order to boost production, it actually had the opposite effect: workers would produce less, as now they could meet their fixed needs with less work. Eventually it was learned that the only way to get them to work harder was to play upon the imagination, stimulating new needs and wants. Consumption, no less than production, needed to be brought under scientific management—the management of desire. Thus, there came to be marketers who called themselves “consumption engineers” in the early decades of the twentieth century. They were armed with the latest findings of experimental psychology.</blockquote><br /><br /><blockquote>There may be something to be said, then, for having gifted students learn a trade, if only in the summers, so that their egos will be repeatedly crushed before they go on to run the country.</blockquote><br /><br /> <br/><br/> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1158731-mark){kind=link}