Richard Sennett: "The Craftsman" (Yale)

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Richard Sennett: "The Craftsman" (Yale)

Craftsmanship today can be more than just ‘skilled manual labor.’ A sociologist explains how computer programmers, artists, parents and citizens all are craftsmen in their own right. How doing a job well for its own sake gives...

Craftsmanship today can be more than just ‘skilled manual labor.’ A sociologist explains how computer programmers, artists, parents and citizens all are craftsmen in their own right. How doing a job well for its own sake gives everyone the potential to be a craftsman

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Richard Sennett

professor of sociology at New York University and at the London School of Economics. Previous books include "The Corrosion of Character," "The Fall of Public Man," "Respect in a World of Inequality," and "The Culture of New Capitalism."

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