For anyone who has spent 8 hours in their cubicle wishing they’d rather be adjusting the valve lash on their project car, this book will become your gospel.

Matthew Crawford’s “Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work” is a refreshing argument from the other side on the value of being a tradesmen as opposed to a knowledge-worker. He takes on society’s bias towards text book education and corporate employment by drawing from his own experience as a Ph.D who jumped off the corporate ladder to open his own motorcycle repair shop.

The NY Times ran an essay from this book.