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ISBN 10: 1843344939
ISBN 13: 9781843344933 
Author: Keith Townsend and John Burgess 

Method in the Madness is presented as a companion to researchers investigating the complex world of work. Rather than a ‘How to’ text on performing research, this book presents a record of experiences. Research so often evolves in the field or the planning stages and a successful researcher need to be aware of serendipitous opportunities as they arise and how to solve problems as they occur. The book comprises an introduction written by the editors followed by thirteen chapters written by different contributors. The introduction draws together the disparate experiences that follow and discusses the ways in which the contributors, all of whom are respected researchers, dealt with and learned from the research experience. In the following chapters, the contributors describe and reflect on the research process, the challenges they met during their research and the lessons learned. The style varies, but includes narratives, anecdotes and descriptions of individuals’ experiences as research was designed and carried out and the results generated.

• Presents twelve chapters of research experiences where the researcher learnt more about performing research whilst ‘in the field’ than they did from prescriptive texts
• Represents a fresh and accessible look at research and research methods

Method in the Madness Research Stories You Won t Read in Textbooks 1st Table of contents:

1. Serendipity and Flexibility in Social Science Research: Meeting the Unexpected

Introduction

• Emerging themes

• Book organisation

Part I: Living the Research

2. There Are Ways and Then There Are Ways: Conducting Research in Social Settings in Japan

Introduction

• So how did it all start?

• In the beginning…

• Minamoto san’s sōbetsukai (farewell party)

• Shattā renkyū – to Kusatsu we will go!

• To summarise the experience

• Acknowledgements

3. ‘On the Mop-Floor’: Researching Employment Relations in the Hidden World of Commercial Cleaning

Introduction

• Ethnographic approaches to work

• Negotiating and securing access

• Conducting research on the mop-floor

• Life on the mop-floor: ethnographic approaches to understanding work

• Conclusions

• Acknowledgements

4. Drinking with Dessie: Research, Mines and Life in the Pilbara

• Prologue

• Thinking about the Pilbara: industrial relations, history, geography

• Accidental ethnography?

• Doing the research

• Sites of research

• Summing things up

• Epilogue

• Acknowledgements

Part II: Access for Research

5. Combating Information Suspicion: Guinness, Sports and Glassblowing

Introduction

• The research project and its methodology

• The case-study context: Waterford Wedgwood Crystal

• The interview narrative

• Conclusion: lessons from our experience

6. What Lies Beneath: The Pleasures, Pain and Possibilities of Focus Groups

Introduction

• The people with whom we have conducted focus groups

• Why we like focus groups

• The ethics of focus groups

• Some ground rules for running focus groups: some lessons

• The limitations of focus groups

Part III: Interviews as a Method

7. Looking Through the Haze of Discontent: Smokers as a Data Source

Introduction

• The ethnographic case study

• Smoking in the workplace – hiding your butts

• The three case studies

• Finding a place for the social outcast

• Conclusion

8. Interviewing Men: Reading More Than the Transcripts

Introduction

• The context

• Methodological overview

• Background to the interviews

• Listening to interview negotiations

• Listening to silences in interviews

• Listening to informal interactions

• Conclusion

9. Establishing Rapport: Using Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Tandem

Introduction

• Warming up a cold case

• Setting up the next phase

• Getting closer to the action

• Becoming embedded in the action

• Conclusion

• Acknowledgements

10. Wrong Way, Go Back! Negotiating Access in Industry-Based Research

Introduction

• The context

• Access as a methodological concern

• Internal/external pressures

• Differential support

• Perceptions of risk

• Concerns about research fatigue

• Blockages and new opportunities

• How access affected research outcomes

• Recommendations for facilitating access

11. A Sporting Chance: Workplace Ethnographies, Ethics Protocols and Playing by the Rules

Introduction

• Participant observation in the Queensland fitness industry

• An occupational study of academic work

• Vested interests and the politics of power

• Unforeseen opportunities and serendipity versus science

• The time-honoured method of participant observation

• Research ethics and the double-bind of the search for ‘truth’

Part IV: Preparing and Responding Throughout the Project

12. Sitting on a Wall in Northumberland Crying: Semi-Structured Interviews

Introduction

• Getting started

• More fear

• Online and comparative research

• Conclusion

13. Researching Train-Based Working

Introduction

• Context

• Aims and empirical details of the study

• Issues/challenges related to distributing surveys on trains

• Discussion

14. A Story About Being Engaged in Research: Buzzing Bees, Small Business and Australian Unfair Dismissal

Introduction

• Small business is the backbone of the economy…

• From observer to participant…

• Journalistic deadlines are quite different to academic ones!

• Pitching the story…

• But there was still more evidence to be put forward…

• Ongoing action…

• A conclusion…

• Conclusion

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