Ethnographic research in the construction industry / edited by Sarah Pink, Dylan Tutt, and Andrew Dainty.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.

Series:

Routledge advances in sociology ; 76

Format/Description:

Book
xvi, 166 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subjects:

Construction industry -- Research -- Methodology.
Ethnology -- Methodology.

Contents:

Introducing ethnographic research in the construction industry / by Sarah Pink, Dylan Tutt, and Andrew Dainty
The labour of refurbishment : space and time, and the building and the body / by Dawn Lyon
"We've got our own language" : the communication practices of migrant workers in the UK construction industry / by Dylan Tutt, Andrew Dainty, Sarah Pink, and Alistair Gibb
"On the tools" : the physical work of building and renovating houses in Perth, Western Australia / by Philip Moore
Ethnography and flux : identity and epistemology in construction fieldwork / by Darren Thiel
Building contacts: the trials, tribulations and translations of an ethnographic researcher in construction / by Daniel Sage
Where's the action? : challenges of ethnographic research in construction / by Nick Marshall and Mike Bresnen
Contributions of ethnographic practice to community-engaged research in construction management / by Andreas Hartman
From interpretation to action : unique adequacy as a common standard for the evaluation of research in the built environment / by John A. Rooke and Clementinah N. Rooke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Pink, Sarah.
Tutt, Dylan.
Dainty, Andrew.

ISBN:

9780415603430 (hardback)
0415603439 (hardback)
9780203834671 (ebook)
0203834674 (ebook)

OCLC:

694393758

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