“Shop Class surveys an economic landscape where everyone must go to college or else be viewed as suspect, stupid, and/or unemployable. The massification of higher education has also created a new vocational pitfall: I’ve got a degree; therefore, I should be doing smart, clean, fun, and well-paid work. Except for clean, these adjectives can be scarce in cubicle alley.Matthew Crawford’s Shop Class as Soul Craft. - review by Michael Agger - Slate Magazine. Looks like another one for the reading list.
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