Unless we really engage with the issue of...how people get skilled...we as a country are going to be disabled in being able to deal with the challenges of the modern world.
Click play to listen. Recorded on November 1, 2008.
Sociologist Richard Sennett addresses issues of labor and production following the publication of his book The Craftsman (2008). Sennett notes that craftsmanship “gives name to a basic human impulse: the desire to do a job well for its own sake” aside from larger, less objective concerns.