Technicians, clients, and professional authority: structured interactions and identity formation in technical work |
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| Authors: | Asaf Darr & Mario Scarselletta |
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| Institution: | The Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Haifa University,;Corning Corporation, USA |
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| Abstract: | This ethnographic study of technicians in action supplements a structural analysis of technical labour by delineating the distinct occupational identities of different technicians through their framed interactions with their clients and professionals with whom they work. We suggest that educational reform predicated on a structural conception of technicians will fail to redress the impending technical skill shortages. |
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