Book ID: CBB670030311

Engineers in Western Europe: Ascent—and Decline?: A Profession Torn Between Technology and Economy, 1850–1990, with Outlooks to the Present (2021)

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In his book, pending between history and sociology, on engineers in thirteen countries of the western part of Europe, Professor Rolf Torstendahl approaches the development from around 1850 up to the present situation from different angles. - One examines the educational patterns and the author shows how widely different types of formation of engineers existed in Britain, France and Germany in the early period. They were paradigmatic for other countries. Differences remain but patterns have gradually become similar. - From another angle the author makes professional organisations of engineers a main object of study, and they vary from alumni associations to powerful lobby organisations. - A third approach in the book is to examine engineers versus sociological theories of professionalism on the one hand and theories of managerialism on the other. In the last chapter the author also discusses topics like technocracy and the responsibility of engineers.

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Authors & Contributors
Diogo, Maria Paula
Barrière, Jean-Paul
Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues
Schot, John
Florent Le Bot
Antónia Fialho Conde
Concepts
Professions and professionalization
Engineers
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Technology and society
Science and society
Engineers, military
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
18th century
Early modern
20th century, late
Places
Europe
Portugal
United States
France
Great Britain
Pacific Rim
Institutions
International Polar Year (1882-1883)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
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