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Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in the United States (Collection on Technology and Work)
Stephen R. Barley
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Description for Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in the United States (Collection on Technology and Work)
Paperback. Editor(s): Barley, Stephen R.; Orr, Julian E. Series: Collection on Technology and Work. Num Pages: 280 pages, 21. BIC Classification: KCF; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 457.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
ILR Press
Condition
New
Series
Collection on Technology and Work
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780801483660
SKU
V9780801483660
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About Stephen R. Barley
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in the United States (Collection on Technology and Work)
This is an interesting book and develops issues of which we have little specific, organized knowledge.
Administrative Science Quarterly
Between Craft and Science is indispensable for understanding why the growth of technical work is central to the new economy and why it confounds our usual explanations as to how jobs should be organized.
Peter ... Read more
Administrative Science Quarterly
Between Craft and Science is indispensable for understanding why the growth of technical work is central to the new economy and why it confounds our usual explanations as to how jobs should be organized.
Peter ... Read more