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The Craftsman Assorted 'A crucial book of theProvocative and enlightening, Richard Sennett's The Craftsman is an exploration of craftsmanship the desire to do a job well for its own sake as a template for living. Most of us have to work. But is work just a means to an end? In trying to make a living, have we lost touch with the idea of making things well? Pure competition, Sennett shows, will never produce good work. Instead, the values of the craftsman, whether in a Stradivari violin workshop