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Ten Years of Talking About Machines

Black Sheep Farm, USA

Ethnography of technical work is susceptible of many readings. The author responds, suggesting that learning, narratives, and community all derive from the work and cannot be considered without it. Similarly, the relationship of the work to its parent organization is examined in terms of enactment, control, managerial discourse, technique, the socialization of technology, and the question of caring for society.

Key Words: work practice • ethnography • organization • enactment • technique • Frankenstein

Organization Studies, Vol. 27, No. 12, 1805-1820 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0170840606071933


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