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Using statistical and interview data of male workers at two newsprint paper manufacturing companies, this article compares workplace subcultures in two different technological settings—a high-tech, information-rich and a low-tech, physically demanding work environment. Three scales of male workers' behaviors, their physicality, immediacy, and sociality, are employed to compare statistically the two workplaces. The results are enriched by interview data from workers at the high-tech paper mill. The analysis and interpretation of the results suggest male subcultures in the modern factory differ from those in more traditional factories in some of the characteristics known as its physicality. However, workers at both paper mills continue to use all their senses in order to better "understand" the limits/possibilities of the production technologies. A comparison of workers reveals they also share other behavioral characteristics. The article concludes with a brief discussion of the continuation of male dominance in the modern factory's subcultures.