Ethnographic Research in the Construction Industry

ISBN-13: 9780415603430 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 192 str.

Sarah Pink

Opis

This title draws together contributions which demonstrate how social science perspectives, rooted in ethnographic research on construction sites and with construction workers themselves, can generate insights into the social, cultural and material ways that the industry and conditions of work in it are played out.

Spis treści

1. Introducing Ethnographic Research in the Construction Industry  2. The Labour of Refurbishment: Space and Time, and the Building and the Body  3. "We’ve Got Our Own Language": The Communication Practices of Migrant Workers in the UK Construction Industry  4. ‘On the Tools’: The Physical Work of Building and Renovating Houses in Perth, Western Australia  5. Ethnography and Flux: Identity and Epistemology in Construction Fieldwork  6. Building Contacts: The Trials, Tribulations and Translations of an Ethnographic Researcher in Construction  7. Where’s the Action? Challenges of Ethnographic Research in Construction  8. Contributions of Ethnographic Practice to Community-Engaged Research in Construction Management  9. From Interpretation to Action: Unique Adequacy as a Common Standard for the Evaluation of Research in the Built Environment