Key academics in ethnomethodology bring together one of the most important bodies of research into people's working practices to develop in the social sciences over the past fifty years. Graham Button, John Hughes and Wes Sharrock contribute to the volume and demonstrate the important contribution that ethnomethodological studies have so far made, and will continue to make, to understandings the ways in which people actually accomplish work from day to day and moment to moment.

Mark Rouncefield is Senior Research Fellow in the Computing Department at Lancaster University, UK Peter Tolmie is Principal Consultant for Ethnographic Services at the University of Nottingham, UK

Chapter 1 The Sociologist as Movie Critic, Dave Randall, Wes Sharrock; Chapter 2 The Project as an Organisational Environment for the Division of Labour, Wes Sharrock; Chapter 3 Organizational Acumen, Peter Tolmie, Mark Rouncefield; Chapter 4 1This chapter is closely based on of ., John A. Hughes; Chapter 5 Plans and Planning: Conceptual Confusions and Empirical Investigations, Dave Randall, Mark Rouncefield; Chapter 6 The Temporal Order of Work, Andy Crabtree, Mark Rouncefield, Peter Tolmie; Chapter 7 Talk: Talking the Organisation into Being, David Martin, Jacki O'Neill; Chapter 8 Meetings and the Accomplishment of Organization, John Hughes, Dave Randall, Mark Rouncefield, Peter Tolmie; Chapter 9 Documents, Mark Hartswood, Mark Rouncefield, Roger Slack, Andrew Carlin; Chapter 10 Text at Work: Mundane Practices of Reading in Workplaces, John Rooksby; Chapter 11 Technology, Mark Rouncefield, Roger Slack, Mark Hartswood; Chapter 12 Conclusion: Ethnomethodology and Constructionist Studies of Technology, Wes Sharrock, Graham Button;