Matthew Crawford

Matthew B. Crawford is an American writer and research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture^[1] at the University of Virginia.

He is a contributing editor ^[2] at The New Atlantis.

Marshall Institute

In September 2001, he accepted a position as executive director of the George C. Marshall Institute,^[3] but left the institute after 5 months,^[4] saying that "the trappings of scholarship were used to put a scientific cover on positions arrived at otherwise. These positions served various interests, ideological or material. For example, part of my job consisted of making arguments about global warming that just happened to coincide with the positions taken by the oil companies that funded the think tank."^[5]

Books

• Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work. Penguin Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1594202230.

Published in London as The Case for Working with Your Hands. Viking, 2009. ISBN 978-0670918744.

Notes

1. ^ Who We Are - Current Fellows. Institute for Advanced Studies In Culture. Retrieved 2009-07-06
2. ^ Matthew B. Crawford. The New Atlantis. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
3. ^ George C.Marshall Institute, Sept. 2001 press release (web archive) (accessed Oct. 10, 2010)
4. ^ Carolyn Mooney, "A Hands-On Philosopher Argues for a Fresh Vision of Manual Work", Chronicle of Higher Education, Chronicle Review, Jun. 15, 2009. Web version (subscribers only) chronicle.com
5. ^ Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, pp. 108-109, Penguin Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1594202230

References

• Crawford, Matthew B. (2000), "Plutarch on Philosophic Eros and Married Life", in Velásquez, Eduardo A., Nature, woman and the art of politics, Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 0847692477, 9780847692477, http://books.google.com/?id=W4gV-exeMEwC&pg=PA115 
• Crawford, Matthew B. (21 May 2009), "The Case for Working With Your Hands", The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html 
• Crawford, Matthew B. (12 July 2009) (transcript). 'Soulcraft' Honors An Honest Day's Work. with Guy Raz. All Things Considered. NPR. http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=106513632. 
• Fukayama, Francis (5 June 2009), "Making Things Work (book review)", The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/books/review/Fukuyama-t.html?pagewanted=1 
• Garner, Dwight (28 May 2009), "Books of The Times;Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche, They Ride Hogs Over It (book review)", The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/books/29book.html 
• Klein, Ezra (1 June 2009), "Is Blue Collar Work "Smart?"", The Washington Post, http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/06/i_dont_really_want_to.html, retrieved 2010-11-24 
• Sanneh, Kelefa (22 June 2009), "Out of the Office; Fast bikes, slow food, and the workplace wars (book review)", The New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/06/22/090622crat_atlarge_sanneh?currentPage=1 

External links

• Personal website
• Feature-length radio interview with KGNU Claudia Cragg on 'Shop Class as Soul Craft'

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