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Ethnographies of work and the work of ethnography

The articles comprising this special issue of Ethnography have been selected from papers presented at the Current Developments in Ethnographic Research in the Social and Management Sciences event held at the University of Liverpool Management School in September 2006. The symposium jointly organized by the host institution and Keele University Institute for Public Policy and Management is the first UK management school-based event (that we know of) to focus exclusively on ethnographic research and was specifically conceived of as a ‘space’ to bring together established and emerging scholars to explore current trends in qualitative research in the social and management sciences. We utilize this special issue to present work that seeks, in various ways, to explore the changing contours and character of the nature of work and the impact this has upon employers and employees. As the breadth and quality of the empirical and theoretical content of the papers presented at the Liverpool Symposium demonstrate, ethnography is a key focus in research for a growing number of organization and management theorists. Ethnography captures what Hodson calls ‘the emergent subtle life of organizations’ (2001: 52) in domains that can be captured by survey research only as shallow de-contextualized surface images. Our aim in selecting these articles has been to contribute to the reanimation of images of work. In this respect our authors respond directly graphy