Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century.
Language: English
Published by Allen Lane / Penguin Books, London, 2020
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Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear. 347 pp. David Goodhart divides human aptitudes into three: Head (cognitive), Hand (manual and craft), and Heart (caring, emotional). The author discusses the need to re-imagine the meaning of skilled work, so that people who work with their hands and hearts are valued alongside workers who manipulate data. A timely book for now and the future. David Goodhart is a journalist and founder of Prospect magazine.
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- Title
- Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century.
- Author
- Goodhart, David.
- Publisher
- Allen Lane / Penguin Books, London
- Publication year
- 2020
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0241391571
- ISBN 13
- 9780241391570
- Edition
- 1st ed.
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- SOCIETY & SOCIOLOGY
A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020
The acclaimed and urgent new book from the celebrated author of The Road to Somewhere
'Brilliant, will become a classic' Daily Telegraph
'Utterly compelling ... one of the most important intellectuals in the country, if not Europe' Sunday Times
The coronavirus pandemic taught us something we ought already to have known: that care workers, supermarket shelf-stackers, delivery drivers and cleaners are doing essential work that keeps us all alive, fed and cared for. Until recently much of this work was regarded as menial by the the same society that now lauds them as 'key workers'. Why are they so undervalued?
In this timely and original analysis, David Goodhart divides human aptitudes into three: Head (cognitive), Hand (manual and craft) and Heart (caring, emotional). It's common sense that a good society needs to recognise the value of all three, but in recent decades they have got badly out of kilter. Cognitive ability has become the gold standard of human esteem. The cognitive class now shapes society largely in its own interests, by prioritizing the knowledge economy, ever-expanding higher education and shaping the very idea of a successful life. To put it bluntly: smart people have become too powerful.
Head, Hand, Heart tells the story of the cognitive takeover that has gathered pace over the past forty years. As recently as the 1970s most people left school without qualifications, but now 40 per cent of all jobs are graduate-only. A good society must re-imagine the meaning of skilled work, so that people who work with their hands and hearts are valued alongside workers who manipulate data. Our societies need to spread status more widely, and provide meaning and value for people who cannot, or do not want to, achieve in the classroom and the professions. This is the story of the central struggle for status and dignity in the twenty-first century.
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