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Craftsmanship

Craftsmanship

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  • ABOUT Richard Sennett

    Richard Sennett is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, where he trains doctoral students in the sociology of culture, and Bemis Visiting Professor of Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches urban studies and runs a workshop on craftsmanship. His books include The Craftsman, Practicing Culture, The Culture of the New Capitalism, and Respect, In an Age of Inequality. He is past president of the American Council on Work and the former Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.

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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.

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