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Technicians in the workplace: ethnographic evidence for bringing work into organization studies.

This paper lays the groundwork for new models of work and relations of production that reflect changes in the division of labor and occupational structure of a postindustrial economy. It demonstrates how new ideal-typical occupations can be constructed, drawing on a set of ethnographies to propose...

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Published in:Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 41; pp. 404 - 442
Main Author: Barley, Stephen R.
Format: Article
Published: Administrative Science Quarterly September 1996
Subjects:
Job classification
Sociology of work
Technologists
Organizational behavior
Organization
Industrial technicians
Employment
Engineering technicians
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