Matthew Crawford

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 for Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work, which was translated into nine languages, has prompted a wide rethinking of education and labour policies in the United States and Europe, leading the London Sunday Times to call him "one of the most influential thinkers of our time." The author lives in Richmond, Virginia.