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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- ISBN10 0226316882
- ISBN13 9780226316888
- Publish Date 27 July 1987
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 15 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 244
- Language English