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9780801432965: Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in the United States (Collection on Technology and Work)
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ISBN 10: 0801432960 ISBN 13: 9780801432965
Editorial: ILR Press, 1997

Sinopsis

Between Craft and Science brings together leading scholars from sociology, anthropology, industrial relations, management, and engineering to consider issues surrounding technical work, the most rapidly expanding sector of the labor force. Part craft and part science, part blue-collar and part white-collar, technical work demands skill and knowledge but is rarely rewarded with commensurate status or salary.The book first considers the anomalous nature of technical work and the difficulty of locating it in any conventional theoretical framework. Only an ethnographic approach, studying the actual doing of the work, will make sense of the subject, the authors conclude. The studies that follow report daily practice filled with disjunctures and ironies that mirror the ambiguities of technical work's place in the larger culture. On the basis of those studies, the authors probe questions of policy, management, and education.Between Craft and Science considers the cultural difficulties in understanding technical work and advances coherent, practice-oriented insights into this anomalous phenomenon.

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Acerca del autor

Stephen R. Barley is Professor of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at Stanford University. He is Editor of Administrative Science Quarterly and of the Cornell University Press series Collection on Technology and Work. Julian E. Orr is a member of the research staff in the Work Practice and Technology Area of the Systems and Practices Laboratory of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. He is the author of Talking About Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job.

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Editorial
ILR Press
Año de publicación
1997
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0801432960
ISBN 13 
9780801432965
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
280
Editor
Barley Stephen R., Orr Julian E.
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