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Technicians, clients, and professional authority: structured interactions and identity formation in technical work
Author(s) -
Darr Asaf,
Scarselletta Mario
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
new technology, work and employment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.889
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1468-005X
pISSN - 0268-1072
DOI - 10.1111/1468-005x.00094
Subject(s) - redress , economic shortage , work (physics) , identity (music) , ethnography , public relations , action (physics) , sociology , engineering ethics , political science , engineering , law , government (linguistics) , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , acoustics , anthropology
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.