KV RA Research Assistant

The motivation previously supplied by the intrinsic satisfactions of manual work was to be replaced with ideology; industrial arts education now concerned itself with moral formation. Leans writes that "American craft publicists, by treating craftsmanship ... as an agent of socialization, abandoned the effort to revive pleasurable labor. Manual training meant specialized assembly line preparation for the lower classes ands educational or recreational experiences for the bourgeoise.

Crawford, Matthew B. — Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work · Card #466
Quotes are taken from the research journals of Kyle Vanderburg.