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Symbolic Translation and What Our Work Requires

What is Symbolic Translation? Twenty years ago, Stephen Barley and Julian Orr (1997) put together a little volume of essays on the nature and context of technical work (Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in U.S. Settings). This volume ought to be read by everyone seriously engaged in our contemporary mania for workforce development—let alone everyone who works—if for no other reason than to enable them to reflect on and understand what they are really doing when they work. In their introduction to these essays, Barley and Orr argue that people are working in very different ways from the way they would have worked 50—even 10—years ago. Within