Good Company

Good Company

In this account of the author's cross-country trek by freight train he explores the hidden, rapidly vanishing world of tramps, a world characterized by discomfort, monotony, and fierce independence About the Author Douglas Harper is professor of sociology at Duquesne University. He is the author of a number of works of visual ethnography and visual sociology-works that use photography as an innovative adjunct to ethnographic description. His books include Good Company, a much-acclaimed photographic portrait and narrative about tramps on the rails; Working Knowledge: Skill and Community in a Small Shop, a portrait of a mechanic and jack-of-all-trades; Changing Works: Visions of a Lost Agriculture, which explores the social world of dairy farmers in upstate New York; Hong Kong: Migrant Lives, Landscapes, and Journeys, a tour of the city