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Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in the United States (Collection on Technology and Work)

Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in the United States (Collection on Technology and Work)

by JulianE.Orr (Editor), StephenR.Barley (Editor)

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    Paperback 1997

    $55.98
Synopsis

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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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 280
 Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 06 Mar 1997
ISBN 10: 0801483662
ISBN 13: 9780801483660

Media Reviews
This is an interesting book and develops issues of which we have little specific, organized knowledge. -Administrative Science Quarterly
A thorough and innovative exploration of technical work. . . . A substantial contribution toward understanding not only technical work, but also the rapidly changing occupational sector as a whole. -Contemporary Sociology
A fascinating and useful look at the underappreciated subject of technicians' work. . . -Amy Sue Bix, Iowa State University, Technology and Culture. October, 1999.
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 Cappelli, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
An extremely insightful book that challenges many of the notions of how and where work gets done and knowledge gets created. Will be a leading edge book in the emerging field of knowledge management and organizational learning. A must read for both serious managers and organizational consultants and researchers. -John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist, Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto Research Center
Author Bio
Julian E. Orr is an anthropologist.He worked at Xerox PARC, has raised sheep, and is an active member of thesanghaat Green Gulch Farm Zen Center.