Working Knowledge: Skill and Community in a Small Shop

Harper, Douglas

ISBN 10: 0226316882 / ISBN 13: 9780226316888

Published by University of Chicago Press, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Working Knowledge: Skill and Community in a Small Shop
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226316882
• ISBN 13: 9780226316888
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Douglas Harper is professor of sociology at Duquesne University and the author of Changing Works: Visions of a Lost Agriculture.