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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511798803321

Autore

Grönberg Per-Olof

Titolo

The peregrine profession : transnational mobility of Nordic engineers and architects, 1880-1930 / / Per-Olof Grönberg [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2019

ISBN

90-04-38520-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 pages)

Collana

Studies in Global Migration History ; ; v. 36/12

Disciplina

331.25

Soggetti

Scandinavia

Engineers

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- A Peregrine Profession -- The Choice of Destinations -- To Study and to Practise in German-Speaking Europe -- Journeymen and Traditional Emigrants to North America -- A Worldwide Labour Market -- Burning No Bridges Behind Them -- Summary and Concluding Discussion -- Back Matter -- Appendices -- Sources and References.

Sommario/riassunto

In The Peregrine Profession Per-Olof Grönberg offers an account of the pre-1930 transnational mobility of engineers and architects educated in the Nordic countries 1880-1919. Outlining a system where learning mobility was more important than labour market mobility, the author shows that more than every second graduate went abroad. Transnational mobility was stronger from Finland and Norway than from Denmark and Sweden, partly because of slower industrialisation and deficiencies in the domestic technical education. This mobility included all parts of the world but concentrated on the leading industrial countries in German speaking Europe and North America. Significant majorities returned and became agents of technology transfer and technical change. Thereby, these mobile graduates also became important for Nordic industrialisation