Shunters at work : creating a world in a railway yard
Skills, and particularly manual skills, are often seen as acquired through unquestioning practice and drill. This is an ethnographic account of a group of railway workers, called shunters, who are occupied with the manual task of assembling carriages into trains. It is here claimed that the acquisit...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Stockholms universitet, Socialantropologiska institutionen
1997
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-47394 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:91-7153-604-3 |