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Working knowledge : skill and community in a small shop / Douglas Harper.
Lippincott Library HD4904 .H335 1987
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LIBRA HD4904 .H335 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harper, Douglas A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Work.
- Community life.
- Repairing trades--New York (State)--Case studies.
- Repairing trades.
- New York (State).
- Physical Description:
- x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 209-211.
- ISBN:
- 0226316882
- OCLC:
- 14932789
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