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Drawing on lifeworlds from medieval workshops to contemporary architectural offices, the work argues against a managerial and sociological view that craftsmanship orientations vanish in industrial society. Through two parts—craftsmanship as a cooperative ideal and craftsmanship as embodied practice—it highlights how repetition, mastery, and the relationship between mind and hand shape quality amid tensions between explicit standards and tacit knowledge.","Richard Sennett: The Craftsman*  \nYale University Press, New Haven, London 2008, 336 pp., € 18.90  \nSennett knows his craft. The Craftsman is an essay about the desire to do a job well asan end in itself, and this definition of craftsmanship, with which Sennett begins his book, has in a certain sense been a leitmotif throughout the writing career of this philosopher of society. The result is a book that’s hard to put down. Sennett takes us to various lifeworlds – the medieval workshops of the goldsmith, the kitchens of the Old and New Worlds, or contemporary architectural offices, to name but a few – and links these excursions to considerations on abilities, on the learning and the impact of craftsmanship. This should suffice to sketch out the reasons why Sennett’s book – the start of a trilogy on material culture – craftsman, warriors and priests, as well as stranger– demands to be read through to the end. This review is concerned with the importance of this book for a particular circle of readers – practitioners and scholars in the particular management-oriented disciplines – beyond just a general interest in the contemporary social philosophy of labor.  \nSennett’s considerations begin with his recalling a passing conversation with his teacher Hannah Arendt in the wake of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. In the conversation, Arendt insisted on her standpoint – developed in The Human Condition – that the engineer, or, more generally, the active person is not the master of his own fate. The self-destructive potential of technological development confirmed her in her rational fear that opening Pandora’s box – here, technological developments – can prove to have consequences that turn against both their creators and the entire human race if politics does not provide clear guidelines. In a sense, Sennett is indeed writing against this rational fear and its roots in the distinction between animal laborans and homo faber or the division of mental and manual labor: in Sennett’s view, the human animal found in animal laborans can indeed think, and thinking does not just begin when the labor is completed.  \nWith this proposition, Sennett is taking a position that actively refuses one widely accepted and subliminally effective in the various subdisciplines of management – labor and organizational sociology, organizational and industrial psychology, and business personnel management and organization studies – that craftsmanship abilities and orientations have disappeared with the emergence of industrial society. Of course, Sennett knows Marx and the consequences all too well to want to overlook principles of the division of labor into “old” or “new” capitalism. The Craftsman should be seen before the backdrop of his recent works on “flexibility” or the new culture of capitalism. But despite all his pragmatism, Sennett is enough of a dialectician to see the sublationof craftsmanship orientations in developed industrial societies of contempo-  \n* reviewed by Professor Wenzel Matiaske, Institute of Personnel and International Management (IPA), Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, and German Socio-Economic Panel Study (DIW/SOEP), Berlin, [e-mail: matiaske@hsu-hh.de](e-mail: matiaske@hsu-hh.de).  \nmanagement revue, 19(1+2): 148-150  \nISSN (print) 0935-9915, ISSN (internet) 1861-9908, © Rainer Hampp Verlag, [www.Hampp-Verlag.de](www.Hampp-Verlag.de)  \nmanagement revue, volume 19, issue 1+2, 2008  149  \nrary capitalism beyond the realm of qualified manual labor among computer programmers, doctors, or artists.  \nIn the first part of the book, we become acquainted with the craftsman as part of a social community that shares a certain idea: delivering quality and doing good work. Sennett links the formation of this ideal to institutions that strengthen cooperation. 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