LEADER 02610oam 2200421 450 001 9910483388303321 005 20230629235726.0 010 $a3-030-57438-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-57438-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000011716914 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-57438-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6458051 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011716914 100 $a20210618d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEngineers in Western Europe $eascent - and decline? : a profession torn between technology and economy, 1850-1990, with outlooks to the present /$fRolf Torstendahl 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cSpringer,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (XVII, 334 p. 30 illus., 25 illus. in color.) 311 $a3-030-57437-7 327 $aFrom Guild Traditions to Profession -- Professional Consciousness: Engineers´ Associations (approx. 1850-1930) -- Knowledge, Careers and Mobility: Engineers from Institutes in Numbers and Idividually (1880-1990) -- A Peak of Engineers´ Industrial Power and new Competitors (approx. 1930-1990) -- The Impact of Engineers in Western Europe 1850-1990. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aEngineering$xSocieties, etc 615 0$aEngineering$xSocieties, etc. 676 $a620 700 $aTorstendahl$b Rolf$01226014 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483388303321 996 $aEngineers in Western Europe$92846514 997 $aUNINA