Crawford, Matthew B.

Matthew B. Crawford is a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and a fabricator of components for custom motorcycles. His bestselling book "Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work", which has been translated into nine languages, has prompted a wide rethinking of education and labor policies in the United States and Europe, leading "The" "Sunday Times" to call him "one of the most influential thinkers of our time."