Matthew Crawford's 'The Case For World With Your Hands'

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In Matthew Crawford’s, “The Case for World with Your Hands” he discusses the social role and intrinsic value of blue collar jobs verse white collar jobs. Crawford’s main argument is that blue collar work is not less intellectually challenging then white collar work, in fact he makes the point that manual jobs can be even more intellectually challenging and have more responsibility then the average desk job. Crawford advocates for a change in this social rule that a blue color job is “less worthy” than a white collar job, sometimes that people only resort to out of lack of other options. He suggests instead for us to educate the youth in both abstract and hands in schools and encourage them to follow what gives them the sense of satisfaction

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