Work

Nicholas Carr encourages us to consider how automation technologies impact our ability to engage with the world and whether — like a good tool — they present a more inviting world or close us off from that world. (30 minutes)

FROM VOL. 27 Robert Kanigel describes the transformation of work due to Frederick Winslow Taylor’s concept of scientific management. (11 minutes)

In this lecture, D. C. Schindler argues that genuine work is inherently meaningful and facilitates an encounter with reality and therefore, ultimately, with God. (36 minutes)

FROM VOL. 128Philosopher and motorcycle mechanic Matthew Crawford explores what forms the self, arguing that individuality is an earned competence achieved through habits of submission to various tasks, traditions, and authorities. (20 minutes)

Matthew B. Crawford on the psychic satisfactions of manual work

FEATURED GUESTS: Tom Shippey, Jeffrey Meyers, Ralph McInerny, Daniel Ritchie, Ian Ker, Mark Schwehn, Gilbert Meilaender, and Tiina Nunnally.

FEATURED GUESTS: James Davison Hunter, Brian C. Robertson, David Myers, Robert Frank, Gayle Brandow Samuels, Thomas Hine, Thomas Hibbs, and Robin Leaver

Paul Marshall discusses how society and the Church have understood work throughout history, and Os Guinness explains how vocation and identity have lost their theological moorings among Christians. (62 minutes)