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Consuming work, producing self: Mar...

Hanson, Natalie DeWinter.

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Consuming work, producing self: Market discourse in dispersed knowledge work.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Consuming work, producing self: Market discourse in dispersed knowledge work./
作者:	Hanson, Natalie DeWinter.
面頁冊數:	269 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-10, Section: A, page: 3885.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-10A.
標題:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3151003
ISBN:	9780496107391

Consuming work, producing self: Market discourse in dispersed knowledge work.
Hanson, Natalie DeWinter.

Consuming work, producing self: Market discourse in dispersed knowledge work. - 269 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-10, Section: A, page: 3885.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 2004.

This dissertation argues that anthropology offers important insights into the ways that corporations shape workers understandings of their work, their colleagues, and themselves. Service industries and knowledge work represent a growing portion of work being done in the U.S. today, and yet the body of social sciences exploring this arena remains relatively small. The research draws on nearly six years of participant observation at the U.S. subsidiary of a global software company. Building on a rich anthropological tradition of industrial ethnography as well as on the lab ethnography tradition in science and technology studies, this study demonstrates the impact of national, industry, and internal company factors in shaping knowledge workers' daily experience in the corporate context.

ISBN: 9780496107391Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

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