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

    The Case for Working with Your Hands by Crawford, Matthew;

    Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good

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      • Publisher's listprice GBP 11.99
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    Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
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    Product details:

    • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
    • Date of Publication 16 December 2010
    • Number of Volumes B-format paperback

    • ISBN 9780141047294
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages256 pages
    • Size 197x129x18 mm
    • Weight 186 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 4 b/w line drawings
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    Long description:

    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 on his own experiences as an electrician and motorcycle mechanic, Matthew Crawford's irreverent and inspiring manifesto will change the way you think about work forever.

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