Revisiting the Early Uses of Writing in Society Building: Cuneiform Culture and the Chinese Imperium.

Bazerman, Charles

doi:10.29344/0717621x.46.3156

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The Construction Of the 20th-century Workplace1

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“…As Bazerman (2022) argues, early writing in both Mesopotamian and Chinese settings (the earliest settings in which writing emerged) functioned to sustain hierarchical organization and strengthen hierarchical power (p. 61). This relationship between literacy and control is well established, although taking new forms as groups of people address new ventures.…”

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What Is a Workplace? Principles for Bounding Case Studies of Genres, Processes, Objects, and Organizations

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2023

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Many of our ideas about workplaces have been inherited from 20th-century corporations, in which the elements of the workplace have been packaged in a highly typified configuration: work is done by people belonging to an organization, for some clear reason, at a specific place and time, using specific processes. This configuration is increasingly at odds with work practice, and thus workplace writing researchers must reconsider what is meant by the “workplace.” This article argues for treating the workplace as a conceptual decision: a bounded case that researchers construct to enable systematic comparisons. After reviewing how cases are bounded in methodology and practice, the article ends with concrete principles and guidance for bounding such case studies.

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What Is a Workplace? Principles for Bounding Case Studies of Genres, Processes, Objects, and Organizations

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2023

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Revisiting the Early Uses of Writing in Society Building: Cuneiform Culture and the Chinese Imperium.

Abstract: This plenary address reconsiders the impact of writing on culture and governance in the ancient Middle East and China.

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What Is a Workplace? Principles for Bounding Case Studies of Genres, Processes, Objects, and Organizations

What Is a Workplace? Principles for Bounding Case Studies of Genres, Processes, Objects, and Organizations

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