Working with your hands: the secret to happiness?
   philosopher Matthew Crawford in his book, The Case For Working With
   Your Hands: Or Why Office Work Is Bad For Us And Fixing Things Feels
   Good. Crawford has a doctorate in political philosophy and used to work
   much modern work feels empty and unfulfilling. He's not really
   suggesting that we white-collar workers should all abandon our desk
   plumbing, carpentry, electrical work, stonemasonry – offer a way of
   workers" as manufacturing jobs disappear, or are outsourced to China.
   much. Assembly-line workers and car mechanics are both blue-collar,
   while call-centre workers are white-collar, but it's arguably the
   a sense of autonomy, a feeling of responsibility for your work and for
   these days designers try to "hide the works". Gadgets feature strange
   knowledge – not the sewers and electricity networks and kitchen tables
   yardsticks to assess the work of their subordinates or themselves, turn
   white-collar workers are often buffered from. "There are people who'll
   characteristic of the work. As early as lunchtime, a deep sense of
   peacefulness has settled over the workshop.
   you know, you've done your work, and you're like, yeah, I did that.
   really, really likes bikes. And tinkering in workshops. And vehicles
   Working With Your Hands "begins to read like a long, self-satisfied
   thinktank where the girly men are, and working on bikes. The book
   work, he comes very close to saying, is effeminising, with its focus on
   teamwork and groups. Real men want to be independent and self-directed,
   rather the comforts of desk work.
   and, if the stone I'd been working on had been destined for some
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