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The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good

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The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good - Crawford, Matthew
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It's time to rethink our attitudes to work. For too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a desk. Generations of school-leavers head for university lacking the skills to fix or even understand the most basic technology. And yet many of us are not suited to office life, while skilled manual work provides one of the few and most rewarding paths to a secure living. Drawing on the work of our greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Heidegger, from Karl Marx to Iris Murdoch, as well as ...

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The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good 2010, Penguin Books Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780141047294

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The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good 2010, Viking, London

ISBN-13: 9780670918744

Hardcover