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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bailyn, Lotte (Contribuidor), Barley, Stephen R. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Bucciarelli, Louis L. (Contribuidor), Carbone, Larry (Contribuidor), Collins, H. M. (Contribuidor), Creighton, Sean (Contribuidor), Hodson, Randy (Contribuidor), Keefe, Jeffrey (Contribuidor), Kuhn, Sarah (Contribuidor), Nelsen, Bonalyn J. (Contribuidor), Orr, Julian E. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Pentland, Brian.T (Contribuidor), Perlow, Leslie (Contribuidor), Pinch, Trevor (Contribuidor), Potosky, Denise (Contribuidor), Scarselletta, Mario (Contribuidor), Whalley, Peter (Contribuidor), Zabusky, Stacia E. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Colección:Collection on Technology and Work
Temas:
Industrial technicians > United States.
Labor History.
Sociology & Social Science.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INTRODUCTION: THE NEGLECTED WORKFORCE
  • PART I. Technical Work's Challenge to the Established Order
  • 1. Technical Work in the Division of Labor: Stalking the Wily Anomaly
  • 2. Technical Dissonance: Conflicting Portraits of Technicians
  • 3. Whose Side Are They On? Technical Workers and Management Ideology
  • Part II. Studies ofTechnical Practice, Knowledge, and Culture
  • 4. Cutting Up Skills: Estimating Difficulty as an Element of Surgical and Other Abilities
  • 5. Bleeding Edge Epistemology: Practical Problem Solving in Software Support Hot Lines
  • 6. Computers, Clients, and Expertise: Negotiating Technical Identities in a Nontechnical World
  • 7. Work as a Moral Act: How Emergency Medical Technicians Understand Their Work
  • Part III. Implications ofTechnical Practice for Training, Credential ling, and Careers
  • 8. The Infamous "Lab Error": Education, Skill, and Quality in Medical Technicians' Work
  • 9. Engineering Education and Engineering Practice: Improving the Fit
  • 10. The Senseless Submergence of Difference: Engineers, Their Work, and Their Careers
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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