Working Knowledge Skill and Community in a Small Shop
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780226316888 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Imprint: | The University of Chicago Press |
Pub date: | 01 Jul 1987 |
Edition: | 1 |
DEWEY: | 302.34 |
DEWEY edition: | 19 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 214 |
Weight: | 962g |
Height: | 278mm |
Width: | 154mm |
Spine width: | 20mm |