“Shop Class surveys an economic landscape where everyone must go to college or else be viewed as suspect, stupid, and/or unemployable. The massification of higher education has also created a new vocational pitfall: I’ve got a degree; therefore, I should be doing smart, clean, fun, and well-paid work. Except for clean, these adjectives can be scarce in cubicle alley.

Matthew Crawford’s Shop Class as Soul Craft. – review by Michael Agger – Slate Magazine. Looks like another one for the reading list.