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  1. Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job (1997)
    David Wellman, Julian E. Orr Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews

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Contested Knowledge
1991
Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job
1997 Standout
Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in U.S. Settings
1998
Images of Work
1998
Talking about Machines
2016
Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job.
1998
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