why doesn't anyone think about work work?

i constantly toy with the notion of an ethnography of middle management, or of professional services, or of generalized white collar work places, and wonder why it is that no one has really done any good ethnographies of workplaces that are just humdrummedly marching late post-capitalism along at its right good clip. maybe the discipline is dead - i haven't really looked for it in a while - or maybe it's still the residual inability to research us here now, where the complexities of complicity, and the difficulty of estranging the incredibly familiar, become too difficult. it's always more fun to go to japan, or botswana, or really just about anywhere novel. the office is not novel.