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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-13
9780801483660
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95953920
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Social Work
Author
Julian E. Orr, Stephen R. Barley
Publication Name
Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in the United States
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Engineering & Technology, Sociology, Safety
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Collection on Technology and Work
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Stephen R. Barley, Julian E. Orr
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