Working Knowledge(English, Hardcover, Harper Douglas)

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Working Knowledge(English, Hardcover, Harper Douglas) is written by Harper Douglas and published by The University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226316882 (ISBN 10) and 9780226316888 (ISBN 13).

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. "