Working knowledge : skill and community in a small shop

Author(s)

• Harper, Douglas A.

Bibliographic Information

Working knowledge : skill and community in a small shop

Douglas Harper

University of Chicago Press, 1987

Note

Bibliography: p. 209-211

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A number of years ago, Douglas Harper moved to northern New York to teach in a small college. Upon his arrival there his department chairman noted his eight-year-old Saab and said, "You'll be meeting Willie." Haper spent the next years establishing not only a working relationship but a friendship with Willie. In "Working Knowledge," he introduces us to Willie, a mechanic and jack-of-all-trades. With this engaging and insightful profile part biography, part ethnography, and part photo essay Harper documents what Willie does and how he does it. Harper's dignified portrait captures a disappearing feature of modern life the essential human factor in the world of work. "

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Details

• NCID: BA00985460
• ISBN:
  • 0226316882
• LCCN: 86030708
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Chicago
• Pages/Volumes: x, 214 p.
• Size: 27 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD4904
  • DC19 : 302.3/4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Work
  • LCSH : Community life
  • LCSH : Repairing trades -- New York (State) -- Case studies