"Portraits at work", the subtitle is more explicit than the title - reference to Apollinaire - that could raise false expectations. Moreover, it is more a question of workers as managers in this slim volume excellently presented. It is a dozen "self-portraits" (a cook, a projectionist, a roofer, etc.) as evidence collected by Helen Briscoe, which has managed the feat of reproducing authentic speech while in "smoothing" partially orality. The book combines sociological survey and linguistic attempt the happiest way. We eagerly awaits the next volume.
