The article refers to a revised edition and review of the book entitled 'People at work : life, power and social
inclusion in the new economy' by Marjorie L. DeVault.
People at Work is a masterly compilation of essays that speak to the
descriptive and analytic power of ‘institutional ethnography’: a technique
that analyses work, broadly defined, by means of an appreciation
of its institutional framework, and how (at times pesky) workers and
ruling regimes negotiate the messy (and at times contradictory) sociotechnical
relations of production.peer-reviewe