Talking about Machines
An Ethnography of a Modern Job
This is a story of how work gets done. It is also a study of how field service technicians talk about their work and how that talk is instrumental in their success. In his innovative ethnography, Julian E. Orr studies the people who repair photocopiers and shares vignettes from their daily lives. He characterizes their work as a continuous highly skilled improvisation within a triangular relationship of technician, customer, and machine. The work technicians do encompasses elements not contained in the official definition of the job yet vital to its success. Orr's analysis of the way repair people talk about their work reveals that talk is, i…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5017-0739-1
- EAN: 9781501707391
- Produktnummer: 23653530
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'226 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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Julian E. Orr
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