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- Title
Science as Routine: Work and Labor in the Bureau of Science at Manila.
- Authors
Baldoza, Jonathan Victor
- Abstract
In the early twentieth-century Philippines, the Bureau of Science at Manila entrenched scientific knowledge production as a component of the American colonial government. This article examines the management and routinization of scientific activity in the bureau, looking at how scientists, acting as managers and bureaucrats, organized, categorized, and administered different kinds of scientific work and labor. In particular, the article discusses how the bureau's scientists grappled with "routine," a category of work classified as important to the bureau's institutional identity but menial and perfunctory, an obstruction to research. As a result, research and routine characterized scientific work, involving technical, manual, and clerical labor along contiguous lines of investigation. Furthermore, the bureau offered a complex but integrated ecology where American and Filipino scientists, clerks, assistants, and other employees worked, forming professional networks and building scientific careers.
- Subjects
MANILA (Philippines); PHILIPPINES; LABOR bureaus; FILIPINOS; COLONIAL administration; SCIENTIFIC knowledge; FILIPINO Americans; HISTORY of science
- Publication
Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2024, Vol 21, Issue 1, p60
- ISSN
1547-6715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/15476715-10948933