The Craftsman by Richard Sennet

Date
27 May 2009

I’ve just started reading this and really loving it. It continues an argument begun in the 19th century, when writers such as John Ruskin and William Morris extolled the crafts remembered in our surnames (Smith, Cartwright, Thatcher, Mason, Fletcher) while lamenting the mind-numbing and soul-destroying labour of the industrial process which was replacing them.

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