Learning and Work: An Exploration in Industrial Ethnography

by Charles Darrah

This volume examines how employees in two manufacturing concerns perceive and perform their jobs, and how the workplace influences employees thinking. Based on extensive fieldwork, the book describes and explores the experiences of daily work. Workers are observed as they interpret instructions, and deal with often contradictory expectations and ambiguous information. The study shows that this process is far more complex than the one portrayed in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815314558
• ISBN13: 9780815314554
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 9.0"