Books written by Douglas A. Harper

  • The Cultural Study of Work
    The Cultural Study of Work

    Tamara Hareven ( 1982 ) , in describing the transition from an agrarian to an industrial economy , distinguished between the experiences of " industrial time , " with its fixed schedules and rigid time clock , and " family time ...

  • Working Knowledge: Skill and Community in a Small Shop
    Working Knowledge: Skill and Community in a Small Shop

    Harper's dignified portrait captures a disappearing feature of modern life—the essential human factor in the world of work.

  • Working Knowledge: Skill and Community in a Small Shop
    Working Knowledge: Skill and Community in a Small Shop

    Harper's dignified portrait captures a disappearing feature of modern life-the essential human factor in the world of work.

  • Visual Sociology
    Visual Sociology

    This text discusses a variety of approaches in visual sociology, including exemplars that connect visual sociology to the history of documentary, photojournalism and art photography.

  • Visual Sociology
    Visual Sociology

    The book examines how documentary photography can be useful to sociologists, both because of the topics examined by documentarians, and as an example of how seeing is socially constructed.