Collection on Technology and Work – serie
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11 produkter
Between Craft and Science
Technical Work in the United States
Av Stephen R. Barley, Julian E. Orr
Inbunden, 1997
1646 kr
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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 …
Talking About Machines
An Ethnography of a Modern Job
Inbunden, 1996
1646 kr
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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. …
Putting Work in Its Place
A Quiet Revolution
Av Peter Meiksins, Peter Whalley
Inbunden, 2002
663 kr
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Most books on the subject of work focus on the increased amount of time Americans spend on the job. Peter Meiksins and Peter Whalley address the counter-trend, examining the difficult path traversed by people who choose to work less than the standard, forty-hour week. Their fascinating …
Surgeons and the Scope
Inbunden, 2003
764 kr
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In Surgeons and the Scope, James R. Zetka Jr. describes the impact of the video laparoscope on the work lives of contemporary surgeons. The video laparoscope allows surgeons to peer into the inner abdomen with a miniaturized camera, thereby enabling them to perform complex operations without large …
Selling Technology
The Changing Shape of Sales in an Information Economy
Av Asaf Darr
Inbunden, 2006
1695 kr
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Selling Technology offers a look at high-tech markets from within, through the experience of salespeople, purchasing agents, and engineers who construct markets for emergent technologies through their daily engagement in sales interactions. Although sales occupations comprise 12 percent of the …
Freelancing Expertise
Contract Professionals in the New Economy
Inbunden, 2010
1695 kr
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Contract work is more important than ever—for better or for worse, depending on one's perspective. The security once implied by a full-time job with a stable employer is becoming rarer, thereby erasing one of the major distinctions between "freelance work" and a "steady gig." Why hang on to a …
Selling Technology
The Changing Shape of Sales in an Information Economy
Av Asaf Darr
Häftad, 2006
385 kr
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Selling Technology offers a look at high-tech markets from within, through the experience of salespeople, purchasing agents, and engineers who construct markets for emergent technologies through their daily engagement in sales interactions. Although sales occupations comprise 12 percent of the …
Freelancing Expertise
Contract Professionals in the New Economy
Häftad, 2010
458 kr
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Contract work is more important than ever—for better or for worse, depending on one's perspective. The security once implied by a full-time job with a stable employer is becoming rarer, thereby erasing one of the major distinctions between "freelance work" and a "steady gig." Why hang on to a …
Between Craft and Science
Technical Work in the United States
Av Stephen R. Barley, Julian E. Orr
Häftad, 1997
544 kr
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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 …
Talking About Machines
An Ethnography of a Modern Job
Häftad, 1996
388 kr
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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. …
Finding Time
How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices
Häftad, 1997
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
346 kr
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Why do Americans work so hard? Are the long hours spent at work really necessary to increase organizational productivity? Leslie A. Perlow documents the worklife of employees who assume that for their own success and the success of their organization they must put in extended hours on the job. …
